KUREMARI (2021, Latvia) - adult bird/female?

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KUREMARI (2021, Latvia) - adult bird/female?
Autumn Birdmap: Starts 15 August. (Spring - Summer data ends 14 August.)

Migration Tracking of KUREMARI

Bird Profile:

• Sex: Adult female (?)

• Age: 6 CY

• Origin: Latvia (ringed 40 km northeast of Riga)

• Territory: caught on 24.07.2023 in Haanja Võru, County, southern Estonia; season 2025, 2026 (nesting?) Latvia

• Wintering ground: Ethiopie (Mekele)

• 4th autumn migration with transmitter (tagged on )

Ringing data:
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).
If you see a stork with a ring in the wild, on a webcam, or in the media, please contact me by Private Message.


Autumn - winter Birdmap 2026 since:
FIRST BIRDMAP UPDATE FOR KUREMARI on:

Autumn migration 2026
Data source:

0/ Departure (Left nesting area)/Migration started on: 12.08
(2025: )

- Belarus (12.08) - Ukraine (13., 14.08) -

stop-over:
(2025: )

1/ Ukraine: betveen Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi (14.08 - 24.08)
2/ Moldova: Lipcani (25.08 - 13.09)
3/ Romania: since 14.09 - 30.09 (16 day)

- Turkey (01.10)

1/ Crossing the Sea of Marmara (Asia/Turkey) 02.10 (Dardanelles)
((2025:")

- Turkey (02.,03., 04., 05., 06.10

- Turkey

2/ Crossing the Gulf of Iskenderun (Asia/middle East)
(2025: )

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LAST DATA:

3/ Crossing the Gulf of Suez (Africa/Egypt)

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4/ Arrival (wintering ground)
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Continuation:
Spring migration 2027
Nesting season 2027:

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birdmap-description (2023)

Probably a female stork, caught on July 24, 2023 in Võru County. It turned out to be a ringed bird from Latvia. According to Maris Strazds, it was ringed as a nestling in July 2021, 40 km northeast of Riga. She was seen on May 26, 2023 in Latvian black stork webcam. Probably did not breed in 2023, but was often with a year-younger Black Stork. She did not rush to start her autumn migration, but made several more stops in Estonia, Latvia and Belarus. Longer stop over in Romania, Danube flood plain

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KUREMARI is an interesting choice of name. In direct translation it means Stork's berry and it is a folk name for cranberries. (info by our Madli - thx!)
This stork with Latvian rings was caught by Urmas and equiped with trasnmitter.

Kuremari before trapping

https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/admin/pildi ... apping.jpg


Kuremari was in the Latvian nest camera for a moment in the spring (confirmed by Dr. M.Strazds).
Here is info about this stork (and video) in our forum (we don't know if this female moved near the nest also the previous days)
: viewtopic.php?p=16352#p16352:

info by Dr. Maris Strazds in Latvian Forum:
Unfortunately, I can't be sure confirm it would be a girl. According to measurements during ringing, it was boy - but it's not 100%, there are about 10-15% errors for gender determined in this way. DNA testing has not yet been done. The bird was the youngest of three chicks in a nest near Pabažie (67.15 km from this nest). The bird is ringed 2021 at about 44 days old on July 4, the bird's age today is 734 days (calendar year 3), it is DEFINITELY a juvenile ("teenager") bird, which "gets to know the living space". (https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.p ... 51#p369351)

video of this visit by Vērotāja - thank you!

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Autumn-winter migration 2025/26 - overview: viewtopic.php?f=171&t=322
Autumn-winter migration 2024/25 - overview: viewtopic.php?f=137&t=235
Autumn-winter migration 2023/24 - overview: viewtopic.php?f=95&t=144

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August 12 data
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BS Kuremari seems to have also started migrating. We do not yet know the outcome of her breeding this year.

FROM
- 12.08
- LATVIA

TO
- 12.08 travelling day
- BELARUS: Moskalishki - a village in Pastavy District of Vitebsk Region



August 13 data

FROM
travelling day 12.08
- BELARUS: Moskalishki - a village in Pastavy District of Vitebsk Region

TO
travelling day 13.08
- approx. 486 km as the crow flies
- UKRAINE: Ruden'ka (Руденька) - village in Zviahel Raion of Zhytomyr Oblast
(northern Ukraine)

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August 14
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FROM
- 13.08 travelling day (486 km)
- UKRAINE: Ruden'ka (Руденька) - village in Zviahel Raion of Zhytomyr Oblast
(northern Ukraine)

TO
- 14.08 travelling day
- approx. 198 km as the crow flies
- Ukraine: Komarivtsi (Комарівці) - village in Zhmerynka Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast

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August 20
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description next days (I am travelling)

FROM
- 14.08 travelling day (198 km)
- Ukraine: Komarivtsi (Комарівці) - village in Zhmerynka Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast

next days: same area/stopover - Kuremari was betveen Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi

TO
- 20.08 stopover (since 14./15.08)
- Ukraine: Korychyntsi - a village in Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region
(Kuremari was in the same area, between Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi)

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August 21
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FROM
- 20.08 stopover (since 15.08 - 6th day)
- Ukraine:Korychyntsi - a village in Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region
(Kuremari was in the same area, between Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi)

TO
- 21.08 stopover (since 15.08 - 7th day)
- Ukraine:Korychyntsi - a village in Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region
(Kuremari was in the same area, between Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi)

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August 25
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FROM
- 21.08 (since 15.08 - 7th day)
- Ukraine:Korychyntsi - a village in Khmelnytskyi district of Khmelnytskyi region

next days Kuremari was in the same area, between Komarivtsi and Korychyntsi)

TO
- 25.08 travelling day
- approx. 116 km as the crow flies
- MOLDOVA: Lipcani - a town in Briceni Distric
(near is the border between Moldova and Romania)

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August 26
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Today's traveler is: Arvo
Those staying in the same place are: Lembe; Mats; Trauma; Kerli; KUREMARI; Janis and Kergu
The sender did not provide information: Uku; Looder; Aidu

- 25.08
- MOLDOVA: Lipcani - a town in Briceni Distric
(near is the border between Moldova and Romania)