UDU hatched 2021, streamed nest in Karula NP

[marika.solo]

JUNE 6

UDU
UDU is offspring of Karl II and Kaia, hatched 2021 (Pikne's sibling)

youtube chat info (info by our Madli):
Udu sent data! (not yet available on the birdmap). ​Udu spent the winter in CAR
(We know that Urmas has some very busy days ahead ... so hopefully he will find some time to update the birdmap soon.)

I received this message: New (but not recent) data: 04.02.2022, Central African Republic
(https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 96#p860296)

previous data: viewtopic.php?p=1018#p1018
- 11.11.2021, Distance 7926 km (+1846 km/14 days)
- Wadi Salih province, Central Darfur region in south-western Sudan. Near the border of Tchad.

autumn birdmap https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2021/aut ... =0&speed=1

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UDU

Previous data: : viewtopic.php?p=1018#p1018
- 11.11.2021, Distance 7926 km (+1846 km/14 days)
- Wadi Salih province, Central Darfur region in south-western Sudan. Near the border of Tchad.

New data: (we are waiting on birdmap update)
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[marika.solo]

June 7

I got this information

Udu's battery status: 0%.
From that reason stork (his transmitter) cannot send new data until the transmitter's battery is charged
https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 18#p860518

[marika.solo]

June 17

I got this information

Post by Urmas » June 16th, 2022, 8:49 pm
About Udu I was informed by Ornitela that last GSM signal is got from south Turkey, somewhere around Iskanderun. But no more data as battery is empty.

https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 31#p863431

So he was alive at the time, and I believe that at least this young stork will continue to be successful

[marika.solo]

August 4

Post by Anne7 » August 4th, 2022, 11:16 am https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 62#p873062 :

"Ornitela was able to determine that Udu's transmitter tried to send data from Turkey until 29 June. Next, on 5 July there were a few connections from Bosnia and Herzegovina and since 14 July Udu is reported to be in northern Italy, between Milan and Turin.

Urmas writes to us:
... As far as I understand, Udu is located somewhere between the mountain valley villages of Cossato and Valle Mosso. Nearby are several reservoirs and perhaps a few streams. Although it is an extremely dry year in northern Italy.
The solar panels of Udu's transmitter seem to be dirty and there is no power (empty battery) to transmit exact locations. Let's hope the transmitter will be washed in deep water soon ... "

ornitela maps in that post

Udu's stay - see the two radiant blue dots (that's how I know it from Anitra maps)


such a circle probably marks the place of Udu's overnight stay (that's how I know it from Anitra maps)

[marika.solo]

"Udu is located somewhere between the mountain valley villages of Cossato and Valle Mosso"

The valley starts from the mountains where it meets with Cervo Valley and Sessera Valley; going southwards it encompasses a wide, hilly area and ends near Cossato a little before the confluence of the Strona (23 km long creek) in the Cervo (65-kilometre long torrent = a form of seasonally intermittent stream). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strona_di_Mosso_Valley)

Cossato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossato
Valle Mosso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_Mosso + (better: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_Mosso)

panorama of Vallemosso (Piedmont, Italy); Pistolesa bridge in the background

https://goo.gl/maps/AxRMdyhxvec4gHJ2A (Nov 2020) or Di F Ceragioli - Opera propria, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7634293

Panorama of Valsessera (BI) from the Cima delle Guardie (on the right the Cima del Bonom, the Colma Bella and the Monticchio)

Di F Ceragioli - Opera propria, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7594162

[Madli]

07 August

Post by Anne7 , Looduskalender forum: https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 53#p873753

UDU managed to send one location point on OrniTrack.
He is currently situated at the same place as the last data (14 July) and spent the night of 6.-7. august somewhere between Cossato and Rovasenda.

Previous data: 14.07.22 On the area between Cossato and Valle Mosso.
New data: 06.08.22 Wider area between Cossato and Rovasenda, northern ITALY.

Rovasenda is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 kilometres northeast of Turin and about 25 kilometres northwest of Vercelli.



Photos of the wider fields area near Rovasenda

Landscape around Rovasenda

Photo: Aivar Brutus, Aug 2009 https://www.google.com/maps/place/13040 ... d8.3146548


A lot of rice fields in that area.

Photo by Aivar Brutus, Aug 2009 https://www.google.com/maps/place/13040 ... d8.3146548

[Madli]

Continuation..

WHERE THERE’S EUROPEAN RICE, NATURE SMILES

In Europe, rice growing is in harmony with the environment.
Though the result of human intervention, the ecosystems created by paddy fields respect nature, and comply with the strict European regulations on environmental protection [...] The use of sustainable agricultural techniques protects the habitats of numerous animal and plant species, and preserves the ecological balance of wetlands [...] Rice paddy fields are functional ecosystems for the life and reproduction of a rich and complex fauna, composed of insects, crustaceans, molluscs, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, which all find their habitat in the vast expanses of water formed when the ground is flooded in spring.

https://www.sustainableeurice.eu/europe ... -in-italy/ and https://www.sustainableeurice.eu/sustainable-rice/

A few images from that web-page of various birds feeding on rice fields.


UDU is a smart storklet and may have found a very good feeding place.

[marika.solo]

August 25
Hello everyone

UDU appeared on the birdmap but they are not there recent data

UDU https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Last data: 22.(!) 08.2022, Distance: 222 km
near Dossi - a locality in the province of Verona, in the Veneto region, in ITALY

[marika.solo]

continuation

Udu may have been flying towards the greenhouses



STREET VIEW https://goo.gl/maps/ecp6WuYb99hwUhTQA (image capture Jan 2022)

edit
street view 1 - from east to the west (link above)


street view 2, from west to the east - there Udu's path line crossed the route and continued to the newest localisation above the fields in the distance

https://goo.gl/maps/bLc48EUAtFXQocHM6 image capture Jan 2022