Black Stork - Ciconia Nigra

birdmap update
KATRIN Distance: 4190 km, Last data: 11.12.2021 (she is back near Yayakent)

December 11
Hello everyone

birdmap update
EEDI: Distance: 6510 km, Last data: 11.12.2021 (new data, "old" area)

MARE continuation

localisation L5 at 14.30

MARE continuation

the localisation L1-L4 are in some kind of wet area


this place without Mares's lines 5 years ago (there aren't good satellite views)

Mare sent data again :-) (we have never received data from this )area on an ongoing basis and this season it is for the fifth time) MARE black stork female from Latvia 4CY https://goris.lv/mare-2017/ (previous post: https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?p=756#p756 and next ) Mare is still in one...

Madli, please write here your post, which I "lost" when I moved it to this new thread. Sorry.

KATRIN And talking about KATRIN's feeding... She mainly uses man-made straight drainage channels or ditches for feeding. There is only one natural water flow she visits (in Yayakent). So that makes me question about the availability of different food types. Drainage channels (dykes, drains, ditches...

KATRIN Hi Madli, only a few black storks are monitored by transmitters in comparing e.g. with white storks. Therefore, the published data for black storks are scarce. There are known cases of wintering black storks in the south of Europe (Spain, France, Greece, but also Bulgaria). And you found inf...

KATRIN It seems to me, that KATRIN feels quite "at home" in this area. I'm already thinking that she will overwinter there too...I looked up about the climate in the Bergama (Aegean) region. Along the west coast of Turkey, overlooking the Aegean Sea, where the remains of ancient Greek cit...

December 11 Hello everyone :-) BIRDMAP OVERVIEW UDU "SMS only helps in general to know where the bird is. That format is not suitable for the birdmap." (info by Urmas to our Madli - see here https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?p=600#p600) https://i.postimg.cc/9MxdJFLV/2021-12-10-bir...