The spring/summer migration stops in mid-August and the autumn/winter migration continues from the following day, the 15th = the bird map is set for autumn/winter migration and the new distance measurement starts from 15.08. However, the birdmap is sometimes ready a week or two later.
in this thread we follow UKU (hatched 2019) adult bird from Latvia (we follow Jani's 1st autumn-winter migration with trasmitter)
UKU colour ring number: 719U - 7 CY
(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.)
data source:
https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2025/aut ... =0&speed=1
birdmap-description:
A male Black Stork that hatched in 2019 in the Paganamaa Landscape Reserve, Võru County, Estonia. The plastic ring on his left leg that he had got as a nestling has disappeared, and was replaced with a new white ring 719U on 9 July 2025.
There is no previous evidence of his encounter. He is unlikely to have had a successful nesting season this year, although another Black Stork was also fishing at the capture site.
Two days after the transmitter was installed, Uku went to Latvia for ten days before starting his migration. It is possible that this is related to the trapping.
The first migration stop over was noticed in southern Belarus (unusual in 2025), the second in the border areas of Ukraine and Moldova. The migration continued in early September.
update
The migration continued in early September to Near-East countries. There transmission of data stopped.
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Autumn-winter migration 2025-2026
birdmap started on -
0/ departure/migration started
"Uku has spent a few weeks in Latvia and now in Russia, quite close to the Belarusian border" (24.07)
- Russia (24.07) - via Belarus - Ukraine ( ) - Romania (16.-19.08) - back to Ukraine (20., 21., ... 29.08; 30., 31.08 )
1/ stopover place/s
2/ crossing the Sea of Marmara 06.09.2025 viewtopic.php?p=51812#p51812
- Turkey/West Asia (07, 08., 09.09)
3/ crossing the the Gulf of Iskenderun 09.09.2025 viewtopic.php?p=51905#p51905
- Syria (09.09) - Jordan (10.09) -
LAST DATA 10.09.2025, Jordan - Khirbat al Wahadinah - a village in Ajlun Qasabah District of the Ajloun Governorate
(not far from the border river Jordan)
viewtopic.php?p=51906#p51906
4/ crossing the Gulf of Suez:
5/ arrival to wintering destination:
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continuation SPRING MIGRATION 2026
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10.07.2025 by Madli:
Urmas caught a new male stork from Viljandi county, he was named Uku and was wearing a metal ring. Ringed as pullus in 2019 by Urmas in SE Estonia.
next info
Uku hatched in 2019 and is an individual ringed by Urmas himself, who has lost his plastic ring in the meantime. Urmas himself will put it on the migration map someday and also add other information and pictures.
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