Migration Tracking of KERGU - 16CY
CY (Calendar Year) counts the calendar years a bird has lived in, starting with 1CY for its hatch year and increasing every January 1st.
Bird Profile:
- Sex: Male
- Age: Adult - 16 CY (hatched 2011)
- Origin (hatch): 10 km from the current nest
- Territory/breeding season 2025: streamed nest in Pärnu County, mate: Kerli
- Wintering ground: Ethiopia (Amhara Region)
- 4th spring migration with transmitter (tagged on 31.07.2022)
I have both ornithological and colour ring numbers, but I’ve been asked to handle them with caution (e.g. to prevent misuse in false reports).
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AUTUMN/WINTER MIGRATION 2025/2026: viewtopic.php?f=170&t=314
Last data: 24.09.2025, Israel: Neve Harif
Note: Many storks winter in remote areas without mobile signals.
Spring Birdmap 2026 since:
FIRST BIRDMAP UPDATE FOR KERGU on:
Spring migration 2026
Data source:
0/ Departure (Left wintering grounds)/Migration started on:
(2025: Egypt: 08.,09.03)
- 03.03 (Ethiopia) - Erithrea (03.03) - Sudan (04.03) - Egypt (05.,06.,07.,08.03)
1/ Crossing the Gulf of Suez (Sinay/Egypt) on 09.03
(2025: Gulf 10.03, Israel 11.03, Lebanon 12.03)
- Egypt/Sinai (09.03) - Israel (10.03) - Lebanon (11.03) - Syria (12.03)
2/ Crossing the Gulf of Iskenderun (Turkey) 12.03
(2025: Gulf 13.03, Turkey 13.,14.,15.03)
- Turkey (12.,13.,14.03
3/ Crossing the Sea of Marmara (Europe)
(2025: Sea 16.03, Turkey 16.-20.03; Bulgaria 21.03, Romania: 22.03, Moldova 23., 24.03, Ukraine 25., 26.,27., 28.03, Belarus 29.03 )
4/ Arrival (Estonia)
(2025: Estonia 30.03, nest: 31.03 at at 11.47)
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- Home on the nest on ... at ... (streamed nest)
Continuation:
Nesting season 2026: viewtopic.php?p=53587#p53587 (in preparation)
Autumn migration 2026:
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