UKU (2019, adult male) - Viljandi county

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Autumn Birdmap: Starts 15 August. (Spring data ends 14 August.) Publication may follow 1–2 weeks later.

Migration Tracking of UKU - 7 CY
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 - 7CY (hatched in 2019)

• Origin (hatch): Paganamaa Landscape Reserve, Võru County

• Wintering ground: 1st site:Chad, CAR; 2nd site: South Sudan - Lainya county in Central Equatoria State

• 2nd autumn migration with transmitter (tagged on 09.07.2025)

Ringing data:
I have both the ornithological and colour ring number, 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: 13.09.2026
FIRST BIRDMAP UPDATE FOR UKU on: 16.09.2026

Autumn migration 2026
Data source: https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2026/aut ... =0&speed=1

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

- Moldova (31/07 and next) -
- Ukraine (12/08) "UKU changed his mind and went to the north again"

The sender did not provide information - Last data: 08/08 viewtopic.php?p=64258#p64258
Uku is back on the radar after 30 days of silence: Ukraine - Belarus (Pripyat area) - Ukraine

- Ukraine (03,04.09 - 05.09) - Romania (06.09) - Türkiye/East Thrace in Southeast Europe (07.09)

1/ Crossing the Sea of Marmara (Asia/Turkey) 08.09 (via sea)
(2025: 06 Sept)

- Türkiye/West Asia (08.,09.,10.09)

2/ Crossing the Gulf of Iskenderun (Asia/middle East)
(2025: Sept 09)

LAST DATA 2025: 10 Sept, Jordan)

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

- next data 15.09 (Africa, Egypt)
- LAST DATA: 15.09.2026, Eypt: Qus - a city in Qena Governorate

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

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Autumn-winter migration 2025/26 - overview: viewtopic.php?f=170&t=312

previous/2025 autumn migration path



previous/2025 stopover site
birdmap: The first migration stop over was noticed in southern Belarus (unusual in 2025), the second in the border areas of Ukraine and Moldova.



previous/2025 wintering site



South Sudan - Lainya county in Central Equatoria State

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birdmap-description (2025)

A male Black Stork that hatched in 2019 in the Paganamaa Landscape Reserve, Võru County, Estonia. The plastic ring on his left leg that he had got as a nestling has disappeared, and was replaced with a new white ring 719U on 9 July 2025.
There is no previous evidence of his encounter. He is unlikely to have had a successful nesting season this year, although another Black Stork was also fishing at the capture site.
Two days after the transmitter was installed, Uku went to Latvia for ten days before starting his migration. It is possible that this is related to the trapping.
The first migration stop over was noticed in southern Belarus (unusual in 2025), the second in the border areas of Ukraine and Moldova. The migration continued in early September.
update
The migration continued in early September to Near-East countries. There transmission of data stopped.

10.07.2025 by our Madli:
Urmas caught a new male stork from Viljandi county, he was named Uku and was wearing a metal ring. Ringed as pullus in 2019 by Urmas in SE Estonia.

next info
Uku hatched in 2019 and is an individual ringed by Urmas himself, who has lost his plastic ring in the meantime. Urmas himself will put it on the migration map someday and also add other information and pictures.
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PHOTO - birdmap

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next info 04.08 viewtopic.php?p=63340#p63340

July 31
Hello everyone

FROM
Belarus

TO
MOLDOVA

Mats, who has migrated, has reached Ukraine, Trauma in Romania, and UKU in Moldova.

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previous info 31.07 viewtopic.php?p=63160#p63160
next info 12.08 viewtopic.php?p=64109#p64109

August 04 info
Hello everyone

FROM
- 31.07
- Moldova

TO
- 04.08
- Moldova: Cuzmenii Vechi a small rural village located in the Fălești district in western Moldova

25 days

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newest localisation - reservoir on the Șovățul Mare - a river in the Republic of Moldova, a left tributary of the Șovățul Mic River. The slopes are asymmetrical, with those on the left being steeper and more fragmented. The riverbed has a width of 1–7 km, a depth of 0.1–0.4 m, and the river speed is 0.1–0.3 m/s. In dry years, the upper reaches dry up.




https://maps.app.goo.gl/nKQohVFavBAdggwo6 Luminița Oct 2016

https://maps.app.goo.gl/m43tv5X8eLmp4ZiV6 Bogdan G. Oct 2021

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previous info 04.08 viewtopic.php?p=63340#p63340
next info 26.08 viewtopic.php?p=64115#p64115

August 12 data
Hello everyone

UKU changed his mind and went to the north again (last 25 days)



"The travelers seem to continue to be in the same places."

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previous info 12.08 viewtopic.php?p=64109#p64109
next info 01.09 viewtopic.php?p=64258#p64258

August 26 data
Hello everyone

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
(Above BS Arvo is Osprey on the map)

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previous info 26.08 viewtopic.php?p=64115#p64115
next info 03.09 viewtopic.php?p=64292#p64292

September 01
Hello everyone

I asked:
Uku: transmitter doesn't work?
Answer:
Uku last point 8.08. 2026 There were no previous anomalies in his behaviour, and the transmitter was full.


information on 12.08
Uku changed his mind and went to the north again : viewtopic.php?p=64109#p64109



UKRAINE: Buchmany (Бучмани) - a rural settlement in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

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previous info 01.09.2026 viewtopic.php?p=64258#p64258
next info 04.09 viewtopic.php?p=64309#p64309

September 03
Hello everyone

Breaking news , UKU is back

Previous info
- 08.08
- Ukraine: Buchmany (Бучмани) - a rural settlement in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

via BELARUS (stopover: Pripyat River area)

TO
- 03.09 travelling day
- UKRAINE: Medvedykha (Медведиха) - a little village in Berdychiv Raion/district of Zhytomyr Oblast (southern part of the oblast)
(northern Ukraine)

30 days



today