SPAIN - Tajo

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Tajo Internacional

documenting the life on streamed black stork nest of male NATALIO + female ZICA in Tajo Internacional

(see also our FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackstork.ciconianigra)

the video transmission from the nest is streaming in Youtube:


new link - "Live" check it here : https://www.youtube.com/@tajointernacional4635/streams

SEASON 2024

streaming started:
on 18.03.2024

ARRIVALs
- male Natalio: ?
- female Zica: ?

EGGs- laying
- FIRST egg: night 16./17.03
(probably - streaming started on 18.03, egg in nest)
- SECOND egg: night 18./19.03
viewtopic.php?p=27142#p27142
- THIRD egg: night 20./21.03
viewtopic.php?p=27191#p27191
- FOURTH egg: night 22./23.03
viewtopic.php?p=27236#p27236

CHICKs - hatching
- FIRST chick (32 days after laying): 18.04 - 22.35 viewtopic.php?p=29316#p293164
video https://youtu.be/MSpmVVM_rCI (by our Urszula NM)
- SECOND chick (31 days after laying): 19.04 - 13.16 viewtopic.php?p=29342#p29342
video https://youtu.be/xxqY_yqKS7w (by our Bozena Isia)
- THIRD chick (30 days after laying): 20.04 - 16.54
video https://youtu.be/PY2uGnX47_U
- fourth egg unhatched (silent from the night 21./22.04, no progress in holes, cracks)

RINGING ?

NAMING

FLEDGING

LEAVING THE NEST

OTHER MAJOR EVENTS
- 18.03 nest attacked by one strange (viewtopic.php?p=27119#p27119)
video https://youtu.be/_QyjQSZ4Lq4 by our forum member Judit - thx!

YOUTUBE CANAL
- "Bocian czarny Hiszpania sezon 2024" by our Maria Lewandowska https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9N ... Oyn31MyqYw
- "Black Storks Tagus International Natural Park, Spain, 2024" by our Bozena Isia https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGrJ ... WJZZUhWe-Z
- "Bociany Czarne - Tajo 2024" by our UrszulaNM https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-G ... ptEhdXFSTN

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HISTORY
- the first streaming started in season 2019 (maybe)
- 4 eggs (4.04+6.04+8.04+10.04); 3 chick hatched (...) and fledged
(more videos of this season on the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@tajointernacional4635)

RESIDENTS
- male named Natalio
- female named Zico

The Black Stork Recovery Plan (Ciconia nigra) is approved in Extremadura, the list of Natura 2000 Network Management Plans in Extremadura in which the black stork is collected aselement or interest and the black stork's range in Extremadura, which are listed in Annexes I, II and III, respectively, of the present order.(GT)
p.26 (http://www.juntaex.es/filescms/con03/up ... ro2018.pdf)

https://www.turismoextremadura.com/viaj ... nal-00001/
http://www.turismotajointernacional.com ... ernacional
https://www.spain.info/en/nature/tejo-t ... e-reserve/

LOCATION
https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/eu-na/tejo-tajo: "Tejo/Tajo International Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, Portugal/Spain"
- Parque Natural, Parque Internacional, Reserva de la Biosfera Transfronteriza

That Natural Park is a protected area in Portugal and Spain. For part of its course, the River Tagus forms the boundary between Spain and Portugal. Areas on both sides of the river are designated as natural parks by the respective nations. Address: Cáceres, Spain

The Tagus (Spanish: Tajo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows 1,007 km, generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon. The Tagus river basin comprises 42 River Nature Reserves [es] and is the river basin with the most protected areas in Spain.(wiki)

Parque Natural Tajo internacional. La natural intemperie del rio | Paisaje Natural


Tajo International natural park. An area of special protection for birds in the Natura 2000 network
https://youtu.be/Wfk1YKdqqXI?si=7qo8T5Lp3On96twR
Parque Natural del Tajo Internacional, Cáceres y Portugal.
https://youtu.be/BVzmU00AET8?si=wZ30u2nbl9NRGwBb

NEST



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streaming started today at 8h

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change and mating

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13:32:29 and next, brutal attack on the nest

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female arrived

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some shots from rewinding

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both on the nest for night

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13:32:29 and next, brutal attack on the nest ...

video by our forum member Judit - thank you



THE WHOLE DAY 18.03
https://www.youtube.com/live/N3bMy3Kh-g ... fi2MrVj0Pc

[bozena Isia]

March 19

2 eggs in the nest