Kurt kotrschal konrad lorenz biography

Bird behavior research facility

The Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle (KLF) is a research facility in Grünau im Almtal (Upper Austria), maintained jointly by private and public entities.

The KFL is dedicated mainly to behavioral biology of birds and named after the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz, who established the facility in 1973.^[1]

History and Organisation

The facility was created in 1973, when Konrad Lorenz retired from his position as chair of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen (Germany) and returned to his native country Austria.

Lorenz had been looking for a place to continue research on greylag geese and the biologist Otto König facilitated the establishment of an appropriate field station in association with a recently established game park in Grünau.^[2]

For seven years, the Max Planck Society financed the facility, before the Austrian Academy of Sciences took over the financing in 198