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Rita wrote: ↑April 12th, 2018, 11:31 am Birdmap update 12.04.18:Markus and Kalle are both near home now.

Rita, pls, where they are at home?

KALLE

MARKUS

APRIL 17



KALLE


MARKUS

KORDIAN

It is good to see when they have survived their journey. :) :) :)

Birdmap update 18.04.2018:

Ospreys Kalle and Markus have safely arrived at their nesting sites.

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Today is another important day for the "ICARUS" Initiative

https://www.animal-sensors.mpg.de/en

This happens right now, since 18:00 German time

In early August, the two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergei Prokopiev will set out on a five-hour spacewalk to mount the antennas on the outside of the Russian service module of ISS. This will launch a roughly two-month test phase to check that all the components of the system are working correctly. If all goes well, Icarus will begin scientific operations by autumn of this year. Around 150 research projects around the globe plan to track the migrations of a wide range of animals, including sea turtles, jaguars, bats and migratory birds.
https://www.animal-sensors.mpg.de/37632/ears-for-icarus

For German readers:
Am 15. August 2018 wird diese Antenne bei einem Außeneinsatz von zwei russischen Kosmonauten an der ISS angebracht. Nach einer Testphase kann das Projekt Icarus voraussichtlich Anfang 2019 beginnen
https://www.br.de/themen/wissen/icarus- ... g-100.html

Bea wrote: ↑August 15th, 2018, 8:39 pm ... If all goes well, Icarus will begin scientific operations by autumn of this year. Around 150 research projects around the globe plan to track the migrations of a wide range of animals, including sea turtles, jaguars, bats and migratory birds. ...

Bea, thank you

Bea wrote: ↑August 15th, 2018, 8:39 pm °°°°°°°°°°°°°

Today is another important day for the "ICARUS" Initiative

Alexander Gerst, the German cosmonaut on the ISS posted photos of the event at his Twitter account.

"The most isolated work place of the world" he wrote...

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28. August

We have new guests on the birdmap, beside our already well-known Estonian ospreys Kalle and Markus, a female osprey Elena and a male, Vova, appear, both from Belarus.


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Elena is already on her way South, but with several back-and-forths ... maybe she is a still unexperienced and young osprey lady? Or maybe due to some unconvenient weather conditions?
She has left Belarus and is in Ukraine now.


About male osprey Vova is written, that he is still feeding osprets and will appear on the map as soon as he is "out of his business" there

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And Estonain osprey Kalle is also already on his way South, maybe he had no chicks this year? He has left Estonia, flew along the Latvian-Russian border and is in Belarus now.



About Estonian osprey Markus is written, that he is still feeding his fledged osprets and will be on the map when he is ready with them


Link to the birdmap
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN

mogga wrote: ↑August 26th, 2018, 5:49 pm ...

more vids by MaxPlanckSociety (not only this 2 about Icarus)
Icarus initiative: Wildlife Observation from Space https://youtu.be/e_KNyhQMjOY
Global animal migrations (Icarus) https://youtu.be/5YkLIW6lsss
Scientists taking part in the Icarus-initiative are working together to develop a satellite-based system to observe small animals such as birds, bats and turtles. More information is available here: https://www.animal-sensors.mpg.de/28056/About_Icarus

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1. September

Our Estonian osprey Kalle is in Ukraine and is heading towards the Black Sea






It seems, he is heading to his pit-stop place from 2017

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Osprey Elena from Belarus is crossing Romania and will have a look at Bucharest from far .... but it seems she will do no sightseeing there and prefers heading straigt to Bulgaria

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With todays´ update Belarusian osprey Elena has left Romania and is crossing Bulgaria now, next station Greece?



Her way leads her along several National Parks in Bulgaria:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_B ... ional_Park
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rila_National_Park
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirin_National_Park

Data from 1.9.2018:

Kalle reached his favourite replenishment place on the northern shores of the black sea, near the Krim (the other lines are from previous years):

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2. September

There were new data for Belarusian osprey Elena yesterday .... she is at the Pagasitic Gulf now, already in Greece




This girl makes pace!




Famous places along next part of her route .... Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Kalamata ....

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Yesterday Belarusian male osprey Vova started his migration, obviously he is out of his feeding-the-offspring-business now






More about Vova, you can find it by clicking on his name at the birdmap


I suppose there is a little mistake in the text, maybe it should be "breeding was unsucessful in 2017 (when the nest fell down) and successful this year, 2018, with three offspring"


http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/

Thank you Bea, there was error in text!
It is repaired now.

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Aahhh, great, thank you for repair!