KARL II, adult male from the streamed nest in Karula NP

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Karl don't spend much time in his usually stop-over site. Our stork flew to Kherson area - Dnieper/Dnipro river and stays there for next two weeks. (If you zoom the map, this area is very interesting and most probably very good place for one black stork in times of peace.)





very nice view from Nova Kakhovka to the area where Karl II searched for food

https://goo.gl/maps/TmxiLG3vwDKMDyfH7 image capture Apr 2021 by https://goo.gl/maps/TmxiLG3vwDKMDyfH7

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Karl's II on the new place (stop-over site)


Krynky - I hope Karl II ate good in this area

PHOTO 1 Krynky - the Konka river https://goo.gl/maps/4K2hTojoeH9oYnjx7 image capture Oct 2016 by Marykor UA
PHOTO 2 fisherman - https://goo.gl/maps/TGD2wcPNQ8G843fXA image capture Sep 2017 by Andrey “RadFox” Tsimosh

Kozachi Laheri

PHOTO https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1 ... NyfA=h1440 by Igor mag003a
or on the google-maps https://goo.gl/maps/eGyZXs574rJiaCbQ6 image capture Jul 2016

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not only his stay (short, new place), but also Karl's II further path-line is unusually (he flew "deep" to the north)

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info - birdmap

During the 2022 migration, this area was a war zone, and Karl II's data was cut off on September 4 before reaching the occupied area. The next data transfer took place only on September 22, when Karl II reached the Ukrainian-Moldovan border, in the Dniester River delta.
Then we saw that Karl II had flown to his usual stop over area on the Black Sea coast at Perekop Bay by evening September 5th, but the next day he flew away from there, 80 km north to the Dnipro river flood plains, while checking the feeding places of previous years.
In 6-19 September, Karl II stopped at the floodplains of the Dnipro river, in a militarily sense rather hot place between Kherson and Kahovka.
On September 19th, Karl II went to see if the conditions on the Black Sea coast had calmed down, but turned back to the Dnipro river and from there in morning of September 20th, he flew further to the north-west, looking for suitable feeding places. In two days, without finding a good place to forage, Karl II reached the border of Moldova, in the delta of the Dniester River (by the evening of September 22). We will see if that will be a longer stop over or only for a single night.

in Estonian also here: https://www.kotkas.ee/uudised/karl-ii-tagasi-levis

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September 24
Hello everyone

Birdmap update for KARL II https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Previous data: https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?p=9908#p9908
- 22.09.2022, Distance: 2236 km (+ 1040 km in 18 days)
- UKRAINE: Troits'ke - a village in Sarata minucipiality, Bilyaivs'kyi district of Odessa oblast (near the border with Moldova)

NEW data:
- 24.09.2022, Distance 2304 km (+ 68 km in 2 days)
- UKRAINA (south from Moldova): Sarata/Сарата - an urban-type settlement in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine
(It is a part of the Bessarabian historic district of Budjak.)

this is Kaia's localisation on 22.09 - see viewtopic.php?p=9916#p9916 - also PHOTO)



more later (Adriána?)

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EDIT: corrected by Marika (see description on birdmap by Urmas, text here: viewtopic.php?p=9932#p9932)

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In this area was yesterday - 23.9. Kaia

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Karl II is there 2 days (arrived on 23.09) - my opinion - because I don't see resting place on the path-line from Troits'ke and in that place near Sarata are too much lines already. The distance is short - maybe Karl II is still searching for good feeding site.

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Sarata river https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarata_(river)

Aerial view on Sarata River (I don't know where exactly is this photo taken)
EDIT the same photo (same author) also here https://www.alamy.com/aerial-view-on-sa ... 76097.html
+ the info: Tatarbunary Raion, Odessa oblast, Ukraine - July 15, 2020


(source: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-phot ... 1794456340 by Andriy Nekrasov)

The Sarata River in Sarata, Odessa Oblast, SW Ukraine
The image created by © Yuriy Kvach on 27 September 2014

PHOTO https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ver_01.jpg
(By The image created by © Yuriy Kvach, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p ... d=35835735)

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September 26
Hello everyone

Birdmap update for KARL II https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Previous data: https://www.ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?p=9942#p9942 and next
- 24.09.2022, Distance 2304 km (+ 68 km in 2 days)
- UKRAINA (south from Moldova): Sarata/Сарата - an urban-type settlement in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine

NEW data:
- 25.09.2022, Distance 2310 km (+ 6 km)
- UKRAINA (south from Moldova): Sarata/Сарата - an urban-type settlement in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine

Karl II stayed on the same place too - he searched for food in/near the Sarata river an the nearby canal

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