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Must toonekurg 3
documenting the life on streamed black stork nest of male Kergu (ring nr 7047) + KERLI (ring nr 719R) in Pärnu County
(see also our FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackstork.ciconianigra)
the video transmission from the nest is streaming in Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/4-v_C_lCdU0
If disturbances in the stream happen, then the broadcast is restarted, working on a new link. You can always look up the new link from the Kotkaklubi YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Kotkaklubi/streams
migration thread for Kergu and Kerli in our forum:
spring 2025
KERGU https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=255 KERLI https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=254
autumn 2024
KERGU https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?f=136&t=230 KERLI https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 448#p38448
SEASON 2025
streaming started:
(2024: public on 28.03
- 2025: 30.03 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 499#p42499
ARRIVALs
(2024: 02.04 at 15.49.31)
- male KERGU: 2025-03-31 at 11.47 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 519#p42519
- female KERLI: 2025-04-14 at 14.04 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 753#p43753
EGGs- laying
- FIRST egg: night 20./21.04 - midnight: first (bad) view at 01.37, laying: 00.06 viewtopic.php?p=44269#p44269
- SECOND egg: night 22./23.04 - on 22.04: first view 23.43.31, laying: 23.36.30 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 410#p44410
- THIRD egg: night 24./25.04 - on 24.04: first view 02.43.08, laying: 22.41.54 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 514#p44514
- FOURTH egg: night 26./27.04 - on 27.04: first view 03.02.29, laying: 02.02.05 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 622#p44622
CHICKs - hatching
RINGING
NAMING
FLEDGING
LEAVING THE NEST
migration thread
OTHER MAJOR EVENTS
. Nurme (7153) is visiting the nest
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YOUTUBE CANAL - PLAYLIST
ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + Kerli)
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marika.solo
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
Season 2024 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 392#p26392
to the end of the season one young female named Kerli visited the nest repeatedly, hopefully they will be a successfully new pair in the next season
Season 2023 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 634#p12634
Kergu stayed alone. The nest was visited from time to time by Nurme (stork with a transmitter) and the camera also recorded other black storks on the nest and in its close vicinity (also a pair of storks)
Season 2022 (no streaming)
3 chicks were successfully raised in the nest. They were in good condition and all fledged. The chicks were ringed, but didn't receive any transmitters.
Nest was found in late breeding season with three chicks in nest, these were ringed. The male Kergu has been caught in late July, when chicks in nest almost fledged. But Kergu visited nest also after installing a tracker on his back. Kergu left for migration in Aug 12th.
to the end of the season one young female named Kerli visited the nest repeatedly, hopefully they will be a successfully new pair in the next season
Season 2023 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 634#p12634
Kergu stayed alone. The nest was visited from time to time by Nurme (stork with a transmitter) and the camera also recorded other black storks on the nest and in its close vicinity (also a pair of storks)
Season 2022 (no streaming)
3 chicks were successfully raised in the nest. They were in good condition and all fledged. The chicks were ringed, but didn't receive any transmitters.
Nest was found in late breeding season with three chicks in nest, these were ringed. The male Kergu has been caught in late July, when chicks in nest almost fledged. But Kergu visited nest also after installing a tracker on his back. Kergu left for migration in Aug 12th.
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
by our Madli https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 817#p12817
RESIDENTS
MALE KERGU himself was ringed as a chick in 2011 by Raivo Endrekson about 9 km away from the current nest location. Kergu's ring nr is 7047.
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.
FEMALE KERLI: Kerli repeatedly visited Kergu / Kergu's nest to the end of the season before the capture and installation of the transmitter. She was caught on 17.07.2024 in Pärnu County, as part of the Black Stork survey of the Tootsi-Sop wind farm (survey was ordered by Enefit Green company)
LOCATION
The nest is situated in Pärnu county, SW Estonia.
Estonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
Pärnu county: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4rnu_County
Kergu Nature Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kergu_Nature_Reserve
The location of the nest is affected by a new wind park. (!)
(more information to wind-park prepared by me: viewtopic.php?p=8495#p8495).
marika: 04.12.2024 — From Thursday, December 4, all 38 wind turbines at the Sopi-Tootsi wind farm in northern Pärnu County will be operational and ready to produce electricity at full capacity. The solar farm next to the wind farm, which has more than 100,000 solar panels, will also be fully operational from next week... The Sopi-Tootsi wind farm is the largest renewable energy facility in the Baltics
(https://news.err.ee/1609541551/all-turb ... m-thursday)
winter photo https://i.err.ee/smartcrop?type=optimiz ... 8hc70a.png
summer photo https://res.cloudinary.com/enefit/image ... lepark.png
NEST
The current nest was discovered in 2021.
In 2022, 3 chicks were successfully raised in the nest. They were in good condition and all fledged. The chicks were ringed, but didn't receive any transmitters.
Kergu's chicks in 2022
Photo by Urmas Sellis
Camera was installed on Kergu's nest on 04.04.2023.
Nest from distance.
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
The camera
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
Installing the solar panel and wifi-antenna about 50m away from the nest.
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
RESIDENTS
MALE KERGU himself was ringed as a chick in 2011 by Raivo Endrekson about 9 km away from the current nest location. Kergu's ring nr is 7047.
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.
FEMALE KERLI: Kerli repeatedly visited Kergu / Kergu's nest to the end of the season before the capture and installation of the transmitter. She was caught on 17.07.2024 in Pärnu County, as part of the Black Stork survey of the Tootsi-Sop wind farm (survey was ordered by Enefit Green company)
LOCATION
The nest is situated in Pärnu county, SW Estonia.
Estonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
Pärnu county: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4rnu_County
Kergu Nature Reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kergu_Nature_Reserve
The location of the nest is affected by a new wind park. (!)
(more information to wind-park prepared by me: viewtopic.php?p=8495#p8495).
marika: 04.12.2024 — From Thursday, December 4, all 38 wind turbines at the Sopi-Tootsi wind farm in northern Pärnu County will be operational and ready to produce electricity at full capacity. The solar farm next to the wind farm, which has more than 100,000 solar panels, will also be fully operational from next week... The Sopi-Tootsi wind farm is the largest renewable energy facility in the Baltics
(https://news.err.ee/1609541551/all-turb ... m-thursday)
winter photo https://i.err.ee/smartcrop?type=optimiz ... 8hc70a.png
summer photo https://res.cloudinary.com/enefit/image ... lepark.png
NEST
The current nest was discovered in 2021.
In 2022, 3 chicks were successfully raised in the nest. They were in good condition and all fledged. The chicks were ringed, but didn't receive any transmitters.
Kergu's chicks in 2022
Photo by Urmas Sellis
Camera was installed on Kergu's nest on 04.04.2023.
Nest from distance.
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
The camera
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
Installing the solar panel and wifi-antenna about 50m away from the nest.
Photo by Raivo Endrekson
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
March 30
Hello everyone
Kergu reached today Estonia. His arrival on the nest is expected on 01.04
(info here https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 489#p42489)
The stream is public already https://www.youtube.com/live/4-v_C_lCdU ... Ff1HklpdU9
info - youtube stream:
The Black Stork nest camera is situated in Pärnu county in Estonia. We have known about this nest only since 2022, but breeding territory since the 1990s.
2022 season
Nest was found in late breeding season with three chicks in nest, these were ringed.
The male Kergu has been caught in late July, when chicks in nest almost fledged. But Kergu visited nest also after installing a tracker on his back. Kergu left for migration in Aug 12th.
2023 season
Before Kergu arrived, nest was visited by neighbour male stork Nurme in April 16th. Few other not ringed storks appeared on nest, but rarely.
2024 season
Camera goes online in 29. 03. Kergu was alone for few weeks, but then was seen in nest young female for several times.
2025 season
Camera installed in 26.03, but get online only 31.03, when Kergu is supposed to arrive. By the time of installation the nest was slightly renovated by bird of prey, probably Common Buzzard. Will a male Black Stork Kergu return to his nest when 38 wind turbines are operating nearby?
Hello everyone
Kergu reached today Estonia. His arrival on the nest is expected on 01.04
(info here https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 489#p42489)
The stream is public already https://www.youtube.com/live/4-v_C_lCdU ... Ff1HklpdU9
info - youtube stream:
The Black Stork nest camera is situated in Pärnu county in Estonia. We have known about this nest only since 2022, but breeding territory since the 1990s.
2022 season
Nest was found in late breeding season with three chicks in nest, these were ringed.
The male Kergu has been caught in late July, when chicks in nest almost fledged. But Kergu visited nest also after installing a tracker on his back. Kergu left for migration in Aug 12th.
2023 season
Before Kergu arrived, nest was visited by neighbour male stork Nurme in April 16th. Few other not ringed storks appeared on nest, but rarely.
2024 season
Camera goes online in 29. 03. Kergu was alone for few weeks, but then was seen in nest young female for several times.
2025 season
Camera installed in 26.03, but get online only 31.03, when Kergu is supposed to arrive. By the time of installation the nest was slightly renovated by bird of prey, probably Common Buzzard. Will a male Black Stork Kergu return to his nest when 38 wind turbines are operating nearby?
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
some views are there from next days
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
next day 01.04 https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 615#p42615
March 31
Hello everyone
Today we are expecting Kergu's arrival.
info 30.03 (https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 489#p42489):
Tagasi Eestis. Homme hommikul peaks pesale jõudma ehk. Õhtul peatub ca 1km Timmu varupesast.
Kergu is back in Estonia. He should probably reach the nest tomorrow morning. In the evening, he stops approx. 1 km from Timmu's reserve nest.
March 31
Hello everyone
Today we are expecting Kergu's arrival.
info 30.03 (https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 489#p42489):
Tagasi Eestis. Homme hommikul peaks pesale jõudma ehk. Õhtul peatub ca 1km Timmu varupesast.
Kergu is back in Estonia. He should probably reach the nest tomorrow morning. In the evening, he stops approx. 1 km from Timmu's reserve nest.
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
the first today visitor
common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
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marika.solo
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marika.solo
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
Kergu heard the buzzard maybe. He is calling.
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bozena Isia
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Re: ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + ?)
Hello EVERYONE
Hello MARIKA
Arrival of Kergu
Marika You're welcome!
Hello MARIKA
Arrival of Kergu
Marika You're welcome!