Following Karls' Families

[juta]

First time in Looduskalender history we have opportunity to observe black storks` migration tracks who are origin from the same family. Their nest is in Karula National Park, Estonia and we have watched their life through the webcam

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... ?f=2&t=924

Family:

Karl – adult male, ring number 715R
Kati – adult femal, not ringed

Their offsprings hatched on 18 – 20 th May 2018

Päike - ring number 7161
Karula – ring number 7162
Maru – ring number 7163

Big thank you to our observers who donated money for transmitters which all three storklets got during ringing on 14th July and made possible to follow hopefully successful migration.

Birdmap http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en

[juta]

Sadly, we have lost some of our young Black Storks. This attrition is to be expected, but still it is a shock when we are faced with the hard news that well-known black stork friends have perished.

For the record, here are the details of the last known locations of PÄIKE, MARU and KARL.




KARL
No new data (Last data: 29.03.2019)
Last known location: near Akkari, Homs Governorate, Syria

MARU
Maru perished on 25.02.2019 at about 13:00, near the Al Ballanah wastewater ponds in Egypt.
Last flight data: 25.02.2019

PÄIKE
No new data (Last data: 07.10.2018)
Last known location: near Schiza Island, Peloponnese, Greece

[juta]

21. May, 2019

DNA data about last year's young Black Storks.

Päike - ring number 7161 Male
Karula – ring number 7162 Male
Maru – ring number 7163 Female

[juta]

Explanations of how the tracker maps and Birdmap work starts on page 281.

[juta]

Reserved

[juta]

Maru started migration first.

Posts by our members

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 10#p609110

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 20#p609120

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 49#p609149

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 52#p609152

[Trine]

Maru started migration first.

So it has begun... May you stay strong and calm, dear storkaholics.

I hope the lines on the tracking map will be long and enduring.

[Liz01]

Juta, thank you for opening this topic. That's great!

Maru's area- pictures. It is a very good place!
https://www.google.de/search?q=Tei%C4%8 ... 67&bih=646

[Anne7]

Thanks a lot, Juta!

So it has begun... May you stay strong and calm, dear storkaholics.
I hope the lines on the tracking map will be long and enduring.

Thanks, Trine!
Strenght and calm... yes, we might need it.

Cross my fingers.

[Rita]

Thank you, Liz, for the link and the pics. Not a bad start that is, this area.

[Liz01]

August 6

Good Morning

Maru has moved some km -Distance 159km


I've to look later.. I've two new data - 159km on August 5 and 198km on August 5
It's too early for that

[Solo]

... I've to look later.. I've two new data - 159km on August 5 and 198km on August 5 It's too early for that ...

Good morning Liz,
maybe they working that time with Data

[Solo]

MARU - moving yesterday after 6 hours
(Urmas wrote: "New data after six hours, hopefully." https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 96#p609096)

plus 28km


storklet flew to Zalāni area (Atašienes pagasts = parish, Krustpils novada = municipiality, in Latgale, Latvia)

[UteL.]

The animation provides different data, just as solo does that, without animation, it is correct.

[Liz01]

The animation provides different data, just as solo does that, without animation, it is correct.

I know it, I do it without animation since last year!

[Solo]

It is difficult to express my feelings watching the bird map: happiness and fear at the same time. I wish so much that our stork familiy will live very very long.

Chrisitz,
yes - it is so with my feelings too, probably for all, who following the storks migration. Especially when they are birds, who we know from nest (streaming). Your wish is also my (our all I think).

[Solo]

August 06

MARU

new Data - Maru flew south(-west)
plus 155km


storklet flew to area near the town Aknīste (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akn%C4%ABste),Aknīste Municipality (Latvian: Aknīstes novads) in Selonia, Latvia


searching for food? on the way to trees (night)?

[Solo]

Good morning to all,

Maru has new data - even from 06.08. (after eating to sleeping place?)

[Summi]

Solo, thank you. Hope you've had a good rest in summer and are ready for the wide "working field" this autumn!
On the one hand I don't like transmitters on their backs, but on the other hand - it's good to know where our feathered friends are at the moment and how they are doing. May favorable winds carry you and a lot of fish be on your "dinner-table"!
a strange thought has come to my mind - maybe also Kati was provided with a transmitter so that we can follow the whole family....

[Solo]

... Hope you've had a good rest in summer and are ready for the wide "working field" this autumn! ...

I am not sure in this moment - they are also storks from previous years (and I do for them years "travel diary" not only with map, but also with photos, if they are in area; without LK - CZ, SK and HU storks, WS and also BS)
Summi,
- thank you , it was good time
- we have still summer and it is also "summer work" (garden - fruits, ...)

...On the one hand I don't like transmitters on their backs, but on the other hand - it's good to know where our feathered friends are at the moment and how they are doing. ...

if we have data and if is all O.K. with our storks, it is good, but ... I like transmitters only for "unknown" storks (but after time, they are also my good friends)