Our storks appear on the map continuously when they reach areas with GSM coverage after starting their journey north.
in this thread we follow 3rd time the tracked spring migration of the male black stork named KERGU from Pärnu county
KERGU, hatched 2011 - 15 CY, ring nr 7047
(CY = calendar year; birds are aged as the number of calendar years they have lived in, with the year they were born in as the 1st calendar year and increasing past every January 1st.)
- Kergu got ring in 2011 as a chick in a nest 8-9 km away from his current nest.
- He was caught and fitted with a transmitter in 2022. This was somewhat a special event because no previously ringed adult had been caught yet.
- Kergu is a location name - Kergu nature protection area where the stork is from. (info by our Madli)
Kergu Nature Reserve: The area of the nature reserve is 437 ha.The protected area was founded in 2007 to protect valuable habitat types and threatened species in Metsaküla and Sohlu village (both in former Kaisma Parish) and in Viluvere village (Vändra Parish). (wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kergu_Nature_Reserve)
Kergu winters in northwestern Ethiopia https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 884#p38884
AUTUMN WINTER MIGRATION 2024/2025
- last data: 24.09.2024, AFRICA: Halaib Triangle - in 1994, the Egyptian military moved to take control of the area as a part of Red Sea Governorate https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 933#p39933
- next birdmap update / spring birdmap started on: - first update for Kergu:
Spring migration 2025
data source (spring birdmap 2025):
0/ departure/migration started on
(2024: 01.03?)
- Egypt (08.,09.03) -
1/ crossing the Gulf of Suez
(2024: 07.03)
- 10.03 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 823#p41823
- Israel (11.03), Lebanon (12.03)
2/ crossing the the Gulf of Iskenderun
(2024: 10.03)
- 13.03 above the southern part of the Gulf https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 823#p41823
- Turkey (13., 14., 15.03)
3/ crossing the Sea of Marmara
(2024: 16.03 via the Sea/west edge)
- 16.03 via the Marmara Islands https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 863#p41863
- Turkey (16.-20.03), Bulgaria (21.03), Romania (22.03), Moldova (23.-24.03)
- Ukraine (25.03, 26.-27.03, 28.03), Belarus (29.03), Estonia (30.03)
4/ arrival
(2024: 02.04 at 15.49.31 on the streamed nest)
- 31.03 at 11.47 Kergu arrived on his streamed nest
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continuation:
Kergu is nesting in streamed nest
- NESTING SEASON 2025: https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 519#p42519
- Autumn migration 2025:
