BS Skierka (and others from the project BocianiMy)

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BS female SKIERKA (and others from the project BocianiMy)
Facebook News Timeline viewtopic.php?f=91&t=145&p=22857#p22857 Note: This thread summarizes Skierka’s information sourced from Facebook collected up to the establishment of our forum in autumn 2021. Since then, her migration and nesting updates have been tracked and nest life documented in separate individual threads. - ! not complet for now)

SKIERKA (previous Żółty - Yellow), ring number VT3726
Skierka is an adult female, hatched in 2017 (9 CY), in the Skierniewice Forest District; she currently nests in the Bolewice Forest District.
She was equipped with a leg-mounted transmitter, and her migration has been tracked via an online map as part of the BocianiMy Stork Project, under the identifier Żółty (“Yellow,” referring to the yellow transmitter) – BOCZ 07 ZOL.

Skierka’s first migration led her to Saudi Arabia (Tabuk area) during the 2017/2018 season. She has since wintered in Greece, on the Struma River near Lake Kerkini National Park, for the eight time.
Photos: 03.03.2022 Skierka in Italy (Lake Kerkini NP) https://www.facebook.com/kerkiniNP/post ... 1762642024

source of information: https://www.facebook.com/BocianiMy and/or Mr. Dariusz Anderwald

Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece
Kerkini National Park: https://kerkini.gr/?lang=en
Struma river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_(river) (wiki: In Greece it is the main waterway feeding and exiting from Lake Kerkini, a significant centre for migratory wildfowl.)

- Autumn-winter migration 2025/2026: viewtopic.php?f=172&t=310

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- Nesting season 2026:
- Autumn migration 2026:


(source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=86 ... 5772583770)

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SPRING MIGRATION 2025 viewtopic.php?f=149&t=258
19.03 - 29.03 (10 days)

Skierka departed from the Kerkini National Park area on 19 March, apparently due to cold weather, and headed north toward Poland. She had spent 169 days at her wintering grounds in Greece, in the Struma River valley. The journey from Greece lasted 10 days; adverse weather conditions in Hungary temporarily stopped her migration. On 29 March at 16:37, Skierka arrived at her nest in the Bolewice Forest District.

SPRING MIGRATION 2024 viewtopic.php?f=111&t=180
03.03 - 11.03 (8 and a half days), 1400 km

Skierka, the most famous female black stork in Europe, returned today from her permanent wintering grounds in Greece—the wide valley of the Struma River near Kerkini National Park. This was the sixth time she had wintered there. She spent 143 days in the Struma valley. She departed from Greece on 3 March at 09:00 and arrived in Poland at her nest in the Bolewice Forest District on 11 March at 14:00. During the 8.5-day journey, she rested at night, fed in the mornings, and continued her flight through North Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, and Slovakia. The straight-line distance covered was approximately 1,400 km.

SPRING MIGRATION 2023 viewtopic.php?f=102&t=160
05.03 - 12.03 (7 days), 1520 km

Skierka returned from her Greek wintering grounds to the Bolewice Forest District. Along the way, she passed all eight nests known to her and stopped at one of her favourite feeding sites between the lakes of the Miedzichowski Landscape Park. She covered 1,520 km in eight days—a very fast spring migration. She stopped only once, for a single day, at the Stawy Milickie Reserve, due to a cold front and strong winds in northern Poland.

map (click) https://i.postimg.cc/7hb4CPRk/2023-03-1 ... 9265-n.jpg

SPRING MIGRATION 2022 viewtopic.php?p=1134#p1134
04.03 - 11.03 (7 days), 1510 km

Skierka completed the journey from her wintering grounds in Greece, along the Struma River, in just seven days without any stopovers, covering a distance of 1,510 km. She had remained at the wintering site for 172 days in the company of 18 other black storks, at least two of which were also from Poland (their rings were read). Skierka is familiar with at least two other nests within a radius of 40 km.
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