New Camera

 
This year the Winter White-tailed Eagle Feeding Ground Camera starts a little later than in previous years. The camera was installed on December 8, with the assistance of Tiit and Joosep, but we only managed to get the sound in working order in the new year, with the help of Beta Group.

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Crane migration map open
30.09.2011 - 20:49 - Stork Travels
Text: Aivar Leito (Uncle Crane)
Photo: Urmas Sellis
Translation: Liis
 
Once again the migration of two young cranes can be followed on Internet (birdmap.5dvision.ee), in addition to the journeys of eagles and black storks.
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Crane Lootvina on July 11, 2011
 
Young crane Lootvina got the GPS/ARGOS battery-fed satellite transmitter on July 11, 2011, near Lootvina village...
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Black storks in winter
28.01.2010 - 23:04 - Stork Travels
Text: Urmas Sellis
Photo: Walter Meienberg
Map: Google Earth
Translation: Liis
 
Now in mid-winter it might seem that the black storks from Estonia should have found themselves warm places in the south, and have no need to move around much. For some of them it is true: Valdur from Võrumaa for instance winters in northern Ethiopia at a particular stretch of river (about 4 km), and won’t go anywhere from there. At least it has been so last winter and this year.
 
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Black storks Raivo and Oss at Israeli fishponds
09.09.2009 - 23:48 - Stork Travels
Text and photos: Renno Nellis
Translation: Liis
 
Raivo entered Israeli air territory in the evening of September 1, and spent the night in the only bit of forest in the Hula valley. For an overnight stay the small piece of forest in the middle of fields served well enough.
 
 
In general there are few forests around the...
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Oss returns home
07.04.2009 - 20:28 - Stork Travels
Text: Urmas Sellis
Photos: Urmas Sellis, Carsten Rohde
 
Yesterday, just before dark on the evening of April 6th, our first transmitter-wearing black stork returned to his nesting grounds in Raplamaa—Oss.
 
 Oss last summer.
 
Oss spent the entire winter in Israel, which means he had the shortest distance to fly home—at least half shorter than Raivo, who spent the first half of winter in Israel and then flew to Kenya’s southern tip.
  
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Black Stork Raivo’s Wintering and Spring Migration
29.03.2009 - 18:58 - Stork Travels
Text: Urmas Sellis
Images: Tanya Trevor Saunders
Map: Google Earth
 
Reports of the black storks’ migration have somehow come to a standstill. But our laziness has not in any way affected their migration. Let’s begin with the black stork who has carried his backpack the longest.
 
Raivo, the male bird who nests in Lääne-Virumaa County, showed us his migration route for already the third time. Every year his routes have been quite similar: the end of August from Estonia to Israel, departing there the second half of December to the southern tip of Kenya and into Tanzania, with mid February seeing him back in Israel and then on to Estonia.
 
From the southern part of Kenya, Raivo made up to two-hundred-kilometer journeys into Tanzania and to the north toward...
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Raivo Arrives
11.01.2009 - 21:28 - Stork Travels
Text: Urmas Sellis
Photo: Joosep Tuvi

The last two years, black stork Raivo has made long migration stops in Israel and then flown on to southern Kenya to winter. This year's behavior is no different. Now, the only one of our acquaintances left at the Israeli fishponds is Oss.
Raivo left his nesting grounds on his fall journey on August 21st, flew 3,500 kilometers, and arrived in the Jordan River Valley on September 10th. He spent more than three months there at the fishponds, and then continued his fall (or should we say winter?) migration on December 16th.

To reach his destination in Ramisi Village at the...

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