PIKNE (hatched 2021)

[marika.solo]

Thank you for the images of the real-time scenery. But i'm afraid we have lost Pikne for good now..
Interesting that the transmitter doesn't give any info anymore. It was probably broken or damaged on the same spot where last data was received...
Big thanks for everybody for the effort.

Madli,
Urmas sent me https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 13058&z=19
there you can see data from early morning 03.56 to 17.26 (last received data)
in the evening: Battery 75% (3998 mV), Solar I 0 mA

I don't have the previous day

but where is the body/the carcass? bones? (feathers?) and the transmitter?

[Madli]

but where is the body/the carcass? bones? (feathers?) and the transmitter?

If an animal got the carcass, it would leave traces of eating it- feathers etc.

But if some human collected it and destroyed the transmitter on the scene..that would be a different story (hunting/ shooting)

[marika.solo]

in this case (I don't think so) were are the traces of these peoples? (they barely swept them)

(LK) "This evening, Pikne's transmitter sent data (after 2 days of silence). Based on that data (no movements, wrong position of the transmitter, flat lines in the XYZ coordinates, transmitted temperatures, etc), it can be deduced that Pikne is dead".
(https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 83#p860783)
later this text in LK was again edited

[Madli]

This is a total mystery and nothing we can do about it now if the carcass has totally dissapeared..I still hope for some information, but I doubt it..

[marika.solo]

true - one very big mystery (and there isn't the previous tracker map - the long fly path from Karacanlık to the last known place)

[marika.solo]

I got this information :

URMAS

Looking the photos from the place, I don't believe better success for some other team. Landscape is very much open there around, any marks (like feathers) of stork had to be easily visible. Think, somebody picked up the carcass, either human or bigger animal and brought somewhere else. No more transmissions, that indicates possible under ground position since late 7th or 8th. Means no more data since 7th evening, one week already.

Last data in 7 June 17:26. Most probably the carcass was dragged away during the night between 7th and 8th of June, but it was there not touched since early morning of 6th of June. Something happened to Pikne after 17:38 (6 June) and before 2:26 (7 June). Seeing the pictures about power lines there, I can speculate about collision and /or electrocution late evening in 6th and taking the carcass by some predator to predators burrow during night between 7th and 8th of June and day of 8th. Not sure, but data show such possibility.

Last charging of battery in mid day 6th (13:40), seems that weather was that day not the best and no more charge later. During 7th June transmitter could be under dead body, because no charging. Other sides, temperature was very high before noon in 7th (up to 52 deg C). That may be strong sun shine to the body or position in closed car exposed to the sun.

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 24#p862724

[marika.solo]

... Last charging of battery in mid day 6th (13:40), seems that weather was that day not the best and no more charge later. During 7th June transmitter could be under dead body, because no charging. Other sides, temperature was very high before noon in 7th (up to 52 deg C). That may be strong sun shine to the body or position in closed car exposed to the sun. ...

weather these days



black stork Lodka from PL (streamed nest) in BG on 25.02.2019 ready for night resting on one of these electric pillars

[marika.solo]

the newest information on the birdmap (description)

"Until June 6, the flight to the north was normal, but then Pikne died in the middle of Turkey. His remains were not found by local bird watchers, but Pikne probably got a collision with power lines or was electrocuted."