Karula National Park (nest of EEDI 2 and his mate)

[marika.solo]

info by Urmas sent 13.07.2023

EEDI
Nothing about Eedi, soon will visit his former nest. Once two weeks ago there was adult stork standing in nest and I did not want to frighten it away, so retreated slowly, but did not see more about nest trough the branches. Additional feeding basket in that territory was not visited by Eedi, like it was last year...

[marika.solo]

NEW BREEDING PAIR IN KARULA, ESTONIA

Do you remember Eedi? Male black stork from Karula (Karl's neighbour). Eedi sent his last data in August 2022 from Latvia. He had just begun his autumn migration. Since then he's been missing and now it is clear that he won't return to his nest.

Luckily Eedi's nest didn't remain emty and in summer 2023, a new pair has accepted the nest and successfully raised 3 chicks! At the time of this discovery, chicks were already too old for ringing.


11.08.2023 Maybe this is Eedi 2 visiting the fish basket?



13.08.2023 Also a juvenile started to visit the basket wirh the adult. Most likely this is the chick of Eedi 2 What is interesting, this is a rare sight to see a begging juvenile with the adult.



Hopefully this adult will get a transmitter and then we can officially welcome him

Big thanks to Raivo for this information.

[marika.solo]

Continuation:

14.08
Urmas was able to put a leg transmitter on one of the chicks of Eedi 2.


15.08
All 3 chicks at the fish basket in the morning


This fish restaurant is located 700 m from Eedi 2's nest.

[marika.solo]

I think that Eedi 2 already deserves his own thread

The plastic stork doesn't feed the chicks!


This just shows that juveniles beg food from anyone that resembles an adult stork. Real or not

[Madli]

15.08

The ringed storklet dared to come back to the fish basket.
I can't read the ring properly. It's 718...
Also, the transmitter this stork is wearing belonged to Madi. Urmas just recently got this device back from Turkey.
I really wish more luck the the bearer of this device.

[Adria]

Thanks Madli for the info and photo .
It's great that the transmitter is now back and has a new owner .
Fingers crossed that he has more luck than Madi .

[marika.solo]

I can't read the ring properly. It's 718...

7184 in my opinion

[Susa]

Guten Morgen, weiß man mehr über Eedi ? Warum er nicht zurück gekommen ist ?

[Madli]

I can't read the ring properly. It's 718...

7184 in my opinion

7184 is Bonus

Maybe 718T or 7185

[Madli]

Guten Morgen, weiß man mehr über Eedi ? Warum er nicht zurück gekommen ist ?

Hello Susa. Eedi went missing in Latvia. Ornithologists went looking for him, but without results. We may think that he perished and fell prey to some animal.

Hallo Susa. Eedi wurde in Lettland vermisst. Ornithologen machten sich auf die Suche nach ihm, jedoch ohne Ergebnis. Wir könnten denken, dass er umgekommen ist und einem Tier zum Opfer gefallen ist.


I hope the translation is correct.