NURME, adult male from west central EE

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in this thread we follow NURME, adult male from Rapla county (we follow his 2nd spring migration)

NURME colour ring number: 7153
data source: https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2023/spr ... =0&speed=1

birdmap info:
Adult Black Stork whos territory is situated in west-central Estonia. He used artificial nest, refreshed it in spring, but did not find female to produce brood in 2021. Started autumn migration in 2nd Aug, in 8 Aug reached stopover place in Ukraine. Wintering site in southern Sudan reached by mid October and second half of wintering in Ehtiopian highlands.
In breeding season 2022 n Nurme visited several nests in a fairly large territory. In one of such Nurme was captured by the trail camera together with a ringed female (V702) from Lithuania (ringed in 2020). Autumn migration started at the end of July. Nurme migrated up to the southern part of Belarus together with another monitored black stork from Pärnu County (Timmu). In Africa, the connection with Nurme was lost, as is common there.

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why Nurme and Kergu got transmitters, read here:
(thx for these info to our Madli) viewtopic.php?p=8495#p8495

Spring migration 2023
first birdmap update for Nurme: 29.03 (Israel)

0/ departure/migration started on

1/ crossing the Gulf of Suez

2/ crossing the the Gulf of Iskenderun on 31.03 viewtopic.php?p=26086#p26086
- Turkey 31.03, 01., 02., 03.04

3/ crossing the Sea of Marmara on 04.04 viewtopic.php?p=26094#p26094
- Bulgaria (04.,05.,06.04) - Moldova (07.04) - Ukraine (08.,09.,10.04) - Belarus (11.04) - Lithuania (12.04) - Latvia (13.04)

4/ arrival ESTONIA: 15.04


continuation
- Autumn-winter migration 2023-2024 viewtopic.php?f=89&t=137

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Spring migration 2022 viewtopic.php?f=49&t=62

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thx Madli

March 28

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FIRST birdmap update for Nurme
next data: March 31 viewtopic.php?p=26084#p26084

March 29
Hello everyone

birdmap update for NURME https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2023/spr ... =0&speed=1

NEW data:
- 29.03.2023; Distance 3567 km (since 15.02)
- ISRAEL: Ma'oz Haim - kibbutz in Northern District (Beit She'an valley)







EDIT:
March 30 - no new data form Nurme

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previous data March 29 viewtopic.php?p=26083#p26083
next data April 1 viewtopic.php?p=26089#p26089

March 31
Hello everyone

birdmap update for NURME https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2023/spr ... =0&speed=1

Previous data:
- 29.03.2023; Distance 3567 km (since 15.02)
- ISRAEL: Ma'oz Haim - kibbutz (Valley of Springs) in Northern District

NEW data:
- 31.03.2023; Distance 4159 km (592 km in 2 days)
- TURKEY: İmamoğlu - a municipality and district of Adana Province



Nurme in the area of Neve Eitan(29.03)

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DAY 1 - MARCH 30

from:
ISRAEL: Ma'oz Haim - kibbutz (Valley of Springs) in Northern District
to:
SYRIA: Kokab/Kawkab - village located in Hama District (Suran Subdistrict) of Hama Governorate



night near Kokab



PHOTO https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1 ... FXGK=h1440 by SULIEMAN ALKURD

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DAY 2 - MARCH 31

from
- SYRIA: Kokab/Kawkab - village located in Hama District (Suran Subdistrict) of Hama Governorate
to
- TURKEY: İmamoğlu - a municipality and district of Adana Province

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STREET VIEW: link

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Nurme is crossing the Gulf İskenderun (open water) every spring

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previous data March 31 viewtopic.php?p=26083#p26083
next data April 2 viewtopic.php?p=26093#p26093

April 1
Hello everyone

birdmap update for NURME https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2023/spr ... =0&speed=1

Previous data:
- 31.03.2023; Distance 4159 km (592 km in 2 days)
- TURKEY: İmamoğlu - a municipality and district of Adana Province

NEW data:
- 01.04.2023; Distance 4453 km (+294 km)
- Turkey: Cihanbeyli - a municipality and district of Konya Province

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Tersakan Lake (Tersakan Gölü, 6,400 ha) is IBA area http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/facts ... C3%BCrkiye
("A saline lake situated to the west of Tuz lake (site 072), fed by springs, surface run-off and drainage. Large areas of mudflat and small areas of freshwater marsh occur; otherwise the lake has virtually no fringe vegetation. Non-irrigated arable fields surround the lake, sheep graze the shores and mining takes place at the Alkim saltpans to the north.")


pic from very short VIDEO (source: https://www.facebook.com/uguribrahimalt ... cale=ms_MY by Uğur İbrahim Altay uploaded on 20 April 2022)