UKU (2019) - adult male, Viljandi county

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IN PREPARATION

Spring Birdmap: Starts 15 February. (Autumn data ends 14 February.) Publication may follow 1–2 weeks later. Storks appear only after reaching GSM coverage during a data session.

Migration Tracking of UKU - 7 CY
CY (Calendar Year) counts the calendar years a bird has lived in, starting with 1CY for its hatch year and increasing every January 1st.

Bird Profile:

• Sex: Male

• Age: Adult - 7CY (hatched in 2019)

• Origin (hatch): Paganamaa Landscape Reserve, Võru County

• 1st spring migration with transmitter (tagged on 09.07.2025)

Ringing data:
I have both the ornithological and colour ring number, but I’ve been asked to handle them with caution (e.g. to prevent misuse in false reports).
If you see a stork with a ring in the wild, on a webcam, or in the media, please contact me by Private Message.

AUTUMN/WINTER MIGRATION 2025/2026: viewtopic.php?f=170&t=312
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)
Note: Many storks winter in remote areas without mobile signals.


Spring Birdmap 2026 since:
FIRST BIRDMAP UPDATE FOR UKU on:

Spring migration 2026
Data source:

0/ Departure (Left wintering grounds)/Migration started on
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1/ Crossing the Gulf of Suez (Sinay/Egypt)
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2/ Crossing the Gulf of Iskenderun (Turkey)
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3/ Crossing the Sea of Marmara (Europe)
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4/ Arrival (Estonia)
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Continuation:
- News (if available): viewtopic.php?f=85&t=336
- Autumn migration 2026:

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UKU

birdmap description (2025)
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 to Near-East countries. There transmission of data stopped.

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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PHOTO - birdmap (there are more photos)