Black Stork Nests in Europe

[asteria]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3826264924277258

The only storklet Kinderek(the sibling did not survive) from Tytan's nest was fed and taken away to the resque station. Its mom already left the nest and Tytan fed the chick only once or twice a day, it is not enough. Kinderek is 40 days old but weights only 1500 g, while storklets of this age should weight 2000 g. In this situation it is the only chance to save the storklet.

[asteria]

Saving Kinderek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIpj7x4w9E

On July 23, 2024, the KOO, together with the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Poznań and the Wolsztyn Forest District, made a very difficult decision to remove a black stork chick from its natural nest on the 37th day of its life. In the case of this species, this is the first such intervention in Poland. The nest tree is half dry, so it was impossible to risk people's health and life by entering the nest using arboricultural techniques. Therefore, a small lift was used, thanks to which specialists from KOO safely caught the hatchling, fed it with small live fish and transported it over 300 km to the wild animal rehabilitation center in Koło near Piotrków Trybunalski. It was the only chick of the pair, which started late breeding only in mid-May (May 13 - 1 egg). Two chicks hatched on June 16, one of them was eaten dead the next day by the male. Until July 12, the breeding was successful, but after heavy storms (50 l / 1 m2), the female probably fed only once and only the male continued to feed. Over the next 10 days, there was a major regression in the food supply, which was delivered only twice a day, and for the last three days only once a day (https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.... Due to the heat wave , the chick was at risk of dehydration and starvation in front of thousands of Internet users who were emotionally attached to Kinderek. For the female, it was the first breeding season in this place and she probably did not know the nearby feeding grounds well. It is not certain whether the male had changed at the beginning of the season as a result of fights for the nest (birds without rings). The male who occupied this nest with Skierka in 2021 fed well and fed 2 young ones. Research using loggers shows that young storks from late breeding are usually in poor condition and not they survive: they either die of hunger at the end of the breeding season or in the first days of migration. Despite the principle of non-interference during online transmissions adopted by the KOO, further observations of this breeding point no longer make sense for humanitarian reasons (our humanism). Due to selection and natural selection, saving didn't make sense either. At 37 days of age, the chick weighed only 1.5 kg, when under normal circumstances and in a better habitat it should have weighed from 2 kg to 2.5 kg (five chicks in Bolewice, aged 45-47 days, weighed 3 kg each!). We believe that taking a young stork in the middle (!) of the nestling stage and placing it in a rehabilitation center gives it a chance to compensate for its current underdevelopment (see: • Widespread upright positioning of chicks in Bolew...) and restore it to nature. Protection of the black stork should not consist in spectacular rescue of individual individuals, but in systemic care for their breeding sites (old trees) and feeding base: maintaining oxbow lakes, refraining from desilting rivers and mid-field ditches and canals, maintaining floodplains, wet meadows, swamps and peat bogs.
Dariusz Anderwald

It looks like Tytan knew that Kinderek was taken away, probably he saw that. Tytan did not look worried, appeared in the nest to prepare it for the next season and left. After that a goshawk visited the empty nest.

[asteria]

The nest of Skierka is now empty, all the five kids left it.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=472553995517523

[asteria]

https://www.facebook.com/10006479154604 ... 936232966/
Kinderek is doing fine. He eats a dozen or so fish a day. Next week he will be moved to a large aviary and will remain there.

[asteria]

Kinderek is getting darker
https://www.facebook.com/10006479154604 ... 5822974067

[Jshallri]

Kinderek is getting darker
https://www.facebook.com/10006479154604 ... 5822974067

How nice to see him thriving under care!

More and more I am convinced that rescuing him was the proper course of action. Otherwise he would’ve starved to death or been predated.

[Liz01]

They want to release him into freedom. From my point of view, there is far too much human contact. Nothing compared to what Dr. Madis did with our Jan and Janika chicks. Here I see the danger that he will not survive his freedom.

[asteria]

Apart from weighting they do the same thing as people saving eliminated white storklets(and then successfully released them), but the problem is that Kinderek hatched too late and grew slower than ordinary storklets. It is not known when he is able to fledge. If it happens too late, hardly he will be released this fall.

[asteria]

Yesterday the storklets of Tonik&Tonicka were released to nature. This year they didn't get transmitters.
https://www.facebook.com/liborZmakova/v ... 281454518/

[asteria]

Kinderek at the age of 62 days in the Center in Koło.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=83 ... 9896600362

Unfortunately he is not ready to be released on September,1.

[asteria]

Kinderek is exploring the world
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4791546042

[asteria]

Kinderek is still not ready to start his fall migration, so he stays wintering in Kolo with one more young black stork.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/8Pcnkj ... tid=xfxF2i

[asteria]

The first flight of Kinderek.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/yUToDc ... tid=D5vuiz

[asteria]

Tonik and Tonichka moved to their winter aviary.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4821425598

[Liz01]

They are back!

Cigüeña Negra en Tajo Internacional
Emisión en directo de nido de cigüeñas negras, Cica y Natalio, en Tajo Internacional




they stay in the nest overnight


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNFRmewTX8I

[Liz01]

greeting each other

[Liz01]

conflict on a white stork nest
The stork comes from the Wesermarsch Stork Station in Berne-Glüsing. He was ringed there in 2019 as a foster animal. It's great that he has recovered so well and found his way to us in Breisgau
Info:
ringed on 24.08.2019 as a young animal in Bern Glüsing, Germany (stork care station: "The black stork came to us unable to fly. It was rescued from a mud flat completely stuck together. "); Comments: + green spiral rings around the ELSA ring

My opinion. Through close contact with humans, he has lost his shyness


The black stork in Gottenheim/Breisgau
The black stork has been perched on the St. Stephan Church in Gottenheim for two days now. This unusual situation has sparked concern on the internet as to whether the stork might be injured. We were all the more surprised when we noticed from a distance as we approached the location that the black stork was not alone on the church roof. It has pushed the white stork pair, which has lived there for years, out of its nest and is now defending it resolutely. The Gottenheim white stork pair are not exactly squeamish, but they have no chance against the black stork. The white stork pair can only return to its nest in the evening, when the black stork goes to its overnight spot. We hope for a peaceful outcome to this nest conflict.
Isi
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562129549339

[Polly]

Hui, also unusual because black storks actually live rather secluded lives.
Maybe it was his first best option after migration...his return.
He will still find his way, hopefully.
There was once a liaison between a black stork and a white stork?

Many thanks Liz!

[Liz01]

Bocian czarny Online Wolsztyn / Black stork Online Wolsztyn




Livestream gestartet am 07.03.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzXqpwur5o

Info about Skierka:
Słynna celebrytka bocianica #Skierka nieustannie nas zaskakuje! Po raz siódmy spędziła zimę nad rzeką Struma w N Grecji Jednak w tym roku wciąż nie odlatuje do Polski co pokazują nam dzisiejsze odczyty. Dlaczego? U nas chwilowe ocieplenie, natomiast nad rzeką #Struma w Macedonii nadal bardzo zimno , zwłaszcza nocami, kiedy temperatury w ciągu ostatniego tygodnia sięgają nawet -1 stopni Celsjusza. Wieloletnie średnie tygodniowe temperatury poprzedzające dzień odlotu za ostatnie sześć zim to: minimalna 7 stopni, maksymalna 25 stopni, średnia 16 stopni. Temperatura w dniu odlotu także około 16 stopni. Wygląda na to, że nasza Skierka jest „ciepłolubna” i nadal czeka na odpowiedni moment tj. ciepłe noce i ciepły wiatr z Afryki, który poniesie ją szybko na północ kontynentu

GT:
The famous celebrity stork #Skierka keeps surprising us! She spent the winter for the seventh time on the Struma River in N Greece However, this year she still hasn't flown back to Poland as today's readings show us. Why? We have a temporary warming here, while on the #Struma River in Macedonia it is still very cold , especially at night, when temperatures have been as low as -1 degrees Celsius over the past week. The long-term average weekly temperatures preceding the day of departure for the last six winters are: minimum 7 degrees, maximum 25 degrees, average 16 degrees. The temperature on the day of departure was also around 16 degrees. It seems that our Skierka is "heat-loving" and is still waiting for the right moment, i.e. warm nights and a warm wind from Africa, which will carry her quickly to the north of the continent

[Liz01]

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