Latvian Black Storks - 2017

[Liz01]

9:43 Black Stork is still in the nest and is waiting....hmmm...,

9:53 Flew away




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[Liz01]

10:37 Ozols is here


yesterday Zile


Now I am missing the proof, Zile. I hope she returns soon

[Liz01]

10:51 flew away. For me it was clearly Ozol

[Sue]

April 2
Sue I hope it will be a good season again

Liz, I hope very much too

[Taube]

I`m happy

[Solo]

Ozols at home? super (15:41:07 nest time - nest is empty)

[Solo]

from chat: liznm​ Perhaps the second stork was the other female? I wonder that no one is at the nest.
Liz, usually the first stork arrived the male and male preparing the nest . If they have'nt ring and/or it is'nt mating all is possible .

[Liz01]

Solo I'm know, that the Male as first arrives. Yesterday Zile came first. She flew away in this Morning. Then a second Stork came in. Since he did not return, I think it was perhaps the second female. The first Stork wasn't a Male. I'm sure. So we have to wait for what happens.

[Owlie]

Male or female - none of us knows (any human being can be sure without actually knowing) . Perhaps they were old inhabitants - or new - who did not like the new architecture without the parents' trunk supporting the nest construction

[Solo]

Solo I'm know ... So we have to wait for what happens.

I know, that you know
Btw: Rasa has new Data

[Liz01]

Male or female - none of us knows

You do not know- I know it.

[Owlie]

... usually the first stork arrived the male and male preparing the nest. ...

I am interested in whether this is a scientifically proved conclusion or just your personal feeling?

[Solo]

... usually the first stork arrived the male and male preparing the nest. ...

Is this a scientifically proved conclusion or just your feeling?

The male birds reach Estonia by the beginning of April, even before the snow and ice have melted and the female birds follow a week or two later. source: http://www.kotkas.ee/species/black-stork (also another description in another language - source writing this)

[Owlie]

Thank you, Solo!

[baska]

Hello together

If male or female, you can never be sure ! They found out that normally the male is coming first, that is true.
But: 'Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel' - the exception proves the rule !

It is the same with the White Storks. Normally it's always the male who comes earlier.
This year for example the female came earlier to my favorite nest ...

[Owlie]

Who is this, a big one? 19:55

[Solo]

... If male or female, you can never be sure ! ...

(I wrote viewtopic.php?p=518508#p518508: If they have'nt ring and/or it is'nt mating all is possible )

[baska]

If they have'nt ring and/or it is'nt mating all is possible )

Excuse me, Solo, but I didn't understand, what you wanted to say.

[Solo]

Who is this, a big one? 19:55

[Owlie]

... If male or female, you can never be sure ! ...

(I wrote viewtopic.php?p=518508#p518508: If they have'nt ring and/or it is'nt mating all is possible )

Solo, both Baska and I mean same as you: that none of us can know whether it is a male or female bird - only DNA-prove or (as you say), rings or mating occasion / egg laying can tell. You can "feel sure" without really knowing, as Liz does.