SPAIN Tajo Internacional (Natalio/M and Zica/F)

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- female is observing something down too
- she is moving the nest material here and there, the nest rim/twigs too, she is digging the nest bowl
- and is observing time to time the surrounding

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- 09.07.07 Natalio is back with twig (!) and is replacing it
- 09.08 both are preening
- 09.13 he is preening her and she him
- 09.14.39 Natalio out

- female is working on the nest a short while
- 09.16.21 female out too

continuation:

there is Zica last seen on the nest (23.06.2025) - video y our MariaL
https://youtu.be/JqSn4Idk3cw?si=BkU1eQI-_gdUCgRs

short visit by one strange female
(04.03.2025)
https://youtu.be/VlmfacSJw14?si=VGQtSxZH96r5vmMP

fly by (04.04)
https://youtu.be/uz5IgnIK0t0

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NATALIO and ZICA

one of very much shots

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1:21 PM Maria Lewandowska
- ​​13:20:55 Natalio, 13:21:16 Zica
- ​​Zica ↑ 13:24:05, Natalio ↑ 13:25:04

continuation
- I am still not sure about the female - Zica doesn't have such round, big eyes, her beak has a more pronounced dark part, ...
- new female is unlikely, but those eyes make me question it (I don't have time to study the other signs of Zica right now)

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July 19
Hello everyone

Natalio arrived again today to his nest at 13.13.25 and out at 13.42.16

- N. arrived singing, fanned tail feathers, he is repeatedly calling (it seemed to me he is calling for female)
- 13.15.36 he moved to the nest rim and is observing the area
- 13.28.10 stork turned its back to the water
- 13.38.52 N. moved to the other edge, near to camera and after some minutes there he flew away

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VIDEO by our Maria L. - big thx again and again (both events)
https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 922#p49922

youtube chat info:

4:28 PM lyudmila zholobitskaya​​
- 15.45.42 - 15.47.20 в воді плаває великий білий лелека! пропливає через ріку, і під скелею під гніздом. ... / a large white stork is swimming in the water! It swims across the river, and under the rock under the nest.
4:34 PM lyudmila zholobitskaya​​
- А лелеки вміють плавати? / Can storks swim?

in my opinion storks, including white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and black storks (Ciconia nigra), cannot swim (more in discussion thread later)

and we don't see how far away the shore is and the shore is not easy - there are vertical rock walls ...



continuation:

8:32 PM Maria Lewandowska​​
- 15.45.42 - 15.47.20 it's not a white stork after all - it's a griffon vulture again

I am confused - the bird was still able to flap its wings


CONTINUATION
AI:
- Griffon vultures are not known for their swimming ability, but they have been observed to swim when necessary, such as when they fall into the water or attempt to cross a body of water during migration. While they are not strong swimmers and can struggle in the water, they have been known to reach shore by paddling with their wings.
- Fledglings or weakened adults may fall into the water
- One documented case involves a Griffon vulture that fell into the sea near Krk Island in Croatia and swam 50 meters to reach the coast. Another instance involved a vulture swimming 400 meters in the Strait of Gibraltar

The straits of Gibraltar, only 14 km wide, usually do not pose any problems for soaring birds, but even there some raptors do go down, and sometimes die drowned in the sea. One griffon though managed to finish its sea crossing from Morocco to Spain swimming – flapping his wings on the water. When it finally reached shore, it dried up on a rock and then flew off.
(https://4vultures.org/pt/blog/have-you- ... -swimming/)

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July 20
Hello everyone

youtube chat info:

9:57 AM Maria Lewandowska
​​09:57 Natalio
10:04 AM Maria Lewandowska​​
oj, chyba to jednak była Zica - ↑ 10:00:44 / oh, I think it was Zica
10:19 AM Maria Lewandowska​​
10:18:24 - 46 Natalio

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to me it is Natalio with the twig at 09.57.00



continuation:
11:19 AM Maria Lewandowska​​
- Mariko udało mi się zrobić zdjęcie w podobnej pozycji obu ptakom, o 09:57 i 10:18 to był Natalio
- Marika, I managed to take a photo of both birds in a similar position, at 09:57 and 10:18 it was Natalio

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youtube chat info:

VIDEO by our MariaL. in this thread: https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.p ... 982#p49982

6:47 PM Primero Segundo​​
- 13:12:36… + . // Lo más interesante de la conversación que mantienen: —Aquí hay un nido. / —Y ahí hay otro. /—Éste está carca del agua. Éste en invierno… // El resto = chorradas de turistas.
- ​​ El hombre de la barca le dice al nadador, después de agarrarse a la popa: "Puede que te salpiquemos un poco".
- ​​*Error => Donde dice "carca del agua" debe decir 'CERCA del agua'.
- ​​13:19:55… Se oye que algo ha caído al agua.


- 13:12:36… + . // The most interesting part of their conversation: —Here’s a nest. / — And there’s another one. / — This one is close to the water. This one in winter… // The rest = tourist nonsense.
- The man in the boat says to the swimmer, after he grabs onto the stern: “We might splash you a bit.”
- *Correction => Where it says "carca del agua," it should say 'CERCA del agua' (close to the water).
- 13:19:55… You can hear something fall into the water.






6:50 PM Primero Segundo​​
- El hombre de la barca le dice al nadador, después de agarrarse a la popa: "Puede que te salpiquemos un poco".
- The man in the boat says to the swimmer, after he grabs onto the stern: 'We might splash you a bit.'