Nurme (adult male, Rapla county)

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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.

in this thread we follow 4th tracked spring migration of the male black stork named NURME from Rapla county


NURME white colour ring number: 7153

NURME winters in southern Sudan and second half of wintering in Ehtiopian highlands (northwestern Ethiopia) https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 877#p38877

AUTUMN-WINTER MIGRATION 2024/2025
- last data: 06.10.2024, Israel: to the north from the Beit She'an Valley https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 180#p40180
- next birdmap update / spring birdmap started on: - first update for Nurme:

Spring migration 2025
data source (spring birdmap 2025):

0/ departure/migration started on
(2024: 15.03)

1/ crossing the Gulf of Suez
(2024: 21.03)

2/ crossing the the Gulf of Iskenderun
(2024: 25.03)

3/ crossing the Sea of Marmara
(2024: 29.03 via Marmara Islands)

4/ arrival
(2024: 07.04)

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continuation:
- Nesting season 2025 news:
- Autumn migration 2025:

Nurme on the nest of Kergu

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SEASON 2023/2024
- last data: 02.10.2023, Jordan: Salikhat w Hajijah - a town in Al-Āghwār ash-Shamāliyah district of Karak governorate
- next birdmap update / spring birdmap: 26.03/Turkey,
(ornitrack data on 21.03/last 6 days, Egypt-Sinay - thx to Madli)

Spring migration 2024 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=176
- migration started on 15.03 - arrival on 07.04

SEASON 2022/2023
- last data: 19.10, Sudan: (north from El Obeid)
- next birdmap update/ spring birdmap: 29.03/Israel;

Spring migration 2023 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=157
- migration started on 24.03 (?) - arrival on 15.04

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March 20
Hello everyone

- 20.03.2025
- ISRAEL: Kfar Ruppin - a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel
(about 5 km southeast of Beit She'an)

43. - Black Stork - Count 27 - 20 Mar 2025 - הלל נחמן (https://ebird.org/atlasilps/hotspot/L1286436)

info, photos: https://www.birdingplaces.eu/en/birding ... far-ruppin



STREET VIEW - here one of the big ponds is dry
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vXeTuezhd8uU13JV8 Haim Shafir Feb 2022

PHOTO 1

PHOTO http://1718494688.rsc.cdn77.org/wp-cont ... n-1213.jpg
(source: http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/coll ... #mwl-15570)

PHOTO 2

uploaded on 15.03.2018 https://www.facebook.com/kefar.rupin.bi ... 26/?type=3

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reviving Israel’s wetlands (info, photos)
first here https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 330#p25330

- 2022, November 23 Bold, beautiful rewilding of Israel’s wetlands
https://www.israel21c.org/the-bold-and- ... -wetlands/

- 2022 November 17 Company tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates
https://www.timesofisrael.com/company-t ... delegates/

- 2022, May 10 Drain the swamp? Israeli startup sees green bonanza in rewilding wetlands instead
https://www.timesofisrael.com/drain-the ... s-instead/

- 2022, May 4 Back to the birds
https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/ ... the-birds/

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March 23
Hello everyone

Thx for sharing news to our Madli

Nurme sent again only one single SMS location.

From
- 20.03.2025
- ISRAEL: Kfar Ruppin - a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel
(about 5 km southeast of Beit She'an)

To
- 23.03.2025
- TURKEY: Katrancı - a village in Karatay district of Konya Province





Katrancı Köyü (KONYA)

VIDEO by Raize uploaded on 17.03.2020

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March 24
Hello everyone

Thx for sharing news to our Madli

Nurme sent again only one single SMS location.

From
- 23.03.2025
- TURKEY: Katrancı - a village in Karatay district of Konya Province

To
- 24.03.2025
- Turkey: Küçükmuhsine - a village in Selçuklu district of Konya Province
(near the Dolay Creek)

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somewhere there in the valley https://maps.app.goo.gl/rxcVPTgesPLsmZnS7 Google Street View Jun 2023


PHOTO Dolay Creek by Deniz Ali Photo - Mar 2018 https://maps.app.goo.gl/egBSktfiBrTnzUew6

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March 25
Hello everyone

Thx for sharing news to our Madli

Nurme sent again only one single SMS location.

From
- 24.03.2025
- Turkey: Küçükmuhsine - a village in Selçuklu district of Konya Province
(near the Dolay Creek)

To
- 25.03.2025
- Turkey: Sarıkavak - a village in Alpu district of Eskişehir province



Sarıkavak is to the south of his localisation

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March 26

info shared by our Madli:
Nurme täna ei saatnud midagi. - Nurme did not send anything today.

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March 27
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Thx for sharing news to our Madli
On Marmara mere ületanud ja sellise koha peal hetkel. - Has crossed the Sea of ​​Marmara and is currently in this place.

Nurme sent again only one single SMS location.

From
- 25.03.2025
- Turkey: Sarıkavak - a village in Alpu district of Eskişehir province
To
- 27.03.2025
- Turkey: between Soylu and Generli - Süleymanpaşa district of Tekirdağ province

change in 2 days