On Tuesday the German expedition travelled to the glorious and reputation-preceding Starnbergersee, a lake where King Ludwig II drowned over a century ago. The lake itself is freshwater (or as the Germans call it, süßwasser) and has an enormous amount of different waterfowl, often with more interesting feathery patterns than seen at home. For instance, we saw a duck that was entirely black except for a white cap on its head, and remarkably had red eyes. We also saw numerous geese, mallards and female ducks, though none as glorious as that one black one. We took a boat tour of the water, before landing at King Ludwig's famous chapel, where we saw an enormous number of interesting black and white pigeons (pictures are enclosed below). Most are larger than the American pigeons, and almost every one
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