BOCZ07 SKIERKA
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(GT) Skierka at wintering grounds in Greece
Skierka, a female black stork with a gps-gsm foot transmitter founded as part of the Storks project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klWLpvcqfE0...) arrived this year at its winter camp in Greece on the Struma River on September 11. More than a month later, we visited it to find out why our most famous black stork spends its winter there for the fourth time. The springs of the Struma are located in Bulgaria on the slopes of the Vitosha Massif, from where the river flows as a swift stream through the Rhodope Mountains. It is only in Greece that the Struma valley widens significantly, the river builds a rather complicated system of arms and supplies the artificial lake Kerkini. Struma and the lake are shallow and heavily silted, which is why it is a refuge for many species of fish, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates. Local residents claim that Heracles, who shot his bow accurately, used to rest on the banks of the Struma. We managed to "shoot" Skierka resting in the marshy fields with 18 other storks. Struma and #LakeKerkiniNationalPark are a refuge not only for black storks, but also for many other interesting species of fish-eating birds.
BY DARIUSZ ANDERWALD
- several videos from Skierka's life from the attachment of the transmitter on her leg to this year's successful nesting:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klWLpvcqfE0...)
Frezja winters in northern Ethiopia. The last signal came 
November this year. We have no new information of the other storks from the online nest.
this year, a young black stork flew out of its nest in the Piotrków Forest District, State Forests 
It immediately flew southwest to Ratibor and then to the Czech Republic on September 
. He flew over Ostrava and headed further south. At that time, there was nothing to indicate future problems 
on September
. The place where he stopped was this large field with a small pond. Such a water reservoir is definitely an unsuitable place for a stork for a longer stop 
. Unfortunately, on September 
, the transmitter stopped sending information about the stork's location. We didn't know for a long time what was happening to our stork
Unexpectedly, I received a message from my Czech colleagues that a stork had been found in a field south of Brno 
. The stork was in a very bad condition - that's why he was taken to Brno to an animal sanctuary, where he recovered his health in an aviary
He immediately flew south. He slept in Slovenia on November 
and spent the night near the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the river Una
on November 
. 
New Year's Eve surprise!
Currently, Frezja has stopped over the small Soroca river, which flows through the savannas of northern Ethiopia, 50 km from the eastern border of Sudan.
, fruitful in fascinating observations of nature and our black storks from the Łódź Voivodeship 