KAIA colour ring number: 718U
data source:
birdmap info:
Female Black Stork from the Karula webcam nest, mate of male Karl II. They have been nesting together since 2020, when two late eggs failed to hatch. 2021 three chicks grew up. In 2022, there were also three chicks in the nest, but in addition there was a fourth stepson from orphaned nest.
- Nesting 2023: viewtopic.php?f=75&t=109
3 chicks fledged, Kalvi got transmitter (backpack) viewtopic.php?f=109&t=173
Autumn migration 2024
Kaia sent last data on 09.10.2023 - Egypt: Lake Nubia - Abu Simbel Municipal division of Aswan Governorate
(the nearest village: Argeen Land Port crossing from Sudan to Egypt - west side of Nile from Dongola)
Spring migration 2023: Kaia sent first SMS data on March 19. Urmas has started loading Kaia's data into birdmap on April 19 - "because the Kaia transmitter had recorded a large number of locations, it took a long time to transmit them. Just before arriving in Estonia, we received all the points of the autumn migration (until February 14)"
Spring migration 2024
The autumn migration stops in mid-February and the spring migration continues from the following day, the 15th = the bird map is set for spring migration and the new distance measurement starts from 15.02. However, the birdmap is sometimes ready a week or two later.
Our storks appear on the map continuously when they reach areas with GSM coverage after starting their journey north.
0/ departure/migration started on XY from XY
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1/ crossing the Gulf of Suez on
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2/ crossing the the Gulf of Iskenderun on
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3/ crossing the Sea of Marmara on XY via
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4/ arrival on
ESTONIA, Karula NP - streamed nest at
continuation
- NESTING 2024 viewtopic.php?f=116&t=187
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- AUTUMN-WINTER MIGRATION 2023-2024 viewtopic.php?p=21139#p21139
Kaia lost her mate Karl II, who perished in Turkey - "Between 1st and 2nd October Karl II lands on electric pylon for night, but got electrocuted." (birdmap info)
- SPRING MIGRATION 2023 viewtopic.php?p=24054#p24054
Kaia started on 18.03 from South Sudan (very near to the border with CAR), she crossed the Gulf of Suez on 27.03 and the Gulf of Iskenderun on 30.03 - Kaia flew around the gulf in a big arc; the Sea of Marmara she crossed on 03.04 via Bosporus and to her nest in Karula NP arrived on 20.04 at 14.26.
(I am gradually adding the data, I accidentally deleted the entire documentation when moving it to the archive)
