Following Karls' Families

[Anne7]

KAIA

Kaia on Lake Beylikahır.
It looks like she is currently looking for food in a wet area in the fields


A very nice VIDEO, showing the lake and its surroundings.
Beylikova Barajı [ Sultaniye Sulama Göleti ]

© 7/24 BALIK AVI
"Beylikova Dam is a dam built between 1996-2002 for irrigation purposes in Eskişehir, fed by canals over the Porsuk Stream.
... However, in 2016, since the dam leaked water from the concrete, the reservoir was completely drained. The dam's floor was improved and patched, and then the reservoir was filled again. ...
The filling of the dam starts with the arrival of a 5 km long canal from the Porsuk River to the pump building next to the dam. ..."

VIDEO
Eskişehir Beylikova Sulama Göleti

© 7/24 BALIK AVI

[Francesca_V]

Hi Anne and everybody,

We know Ekesehir already from last year! I was so fascinated that birds loved this district.

I am very curious to see where Karl II and Metsoja are going to.

[Anne7]

... I am very curious to see where Karl II and Metsoja are going to.

Hi Francesca!

Me too!
As Swenja wrote, it is quite possible that soon their paths will part again.

[juta]

KALVI

Tracker map 29.09 - 30.09.23

Distance 7.76 km
Battery

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... sp=sharing Kalvi is in Bolgaria

[Francesca_V]

Nice! Kalvi ist moving very slowly to the Bosporus!

[Anne7]

Hello again!

KARL II

Wonderful! Our Karl II and Kaia are still together!
Stunning!

▶︎ TRACKER MAP
KARL II 29.09 — 30.09.2023
From 29.09 at 16:17 UTC until 30.09 at 16:10 UTC

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Distance: 180 km
Battery: 84 %

[Francesca_V]

Yes, they are!


I hope you don't mind ...

Kaia. Metsoja. Karl II



Kaia and Karl II


It's faszinating.

[Bea]

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WABA

Hello everyone

▶︎ TRACKER MAP
WABA 29.09. - 30.09.2023
From 29.09._17:05 until 30.09._17:03

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Distance: 30,2 km
Battery: 83 %

Waba did still not move away from the Danube in Romania

[Anne7]

Yes, they are!
I hope you don't mind ...
...

Of course I don't mind, Francesca!

[Hulbi Lorm]

This is such an amazing observation. Here it really pays off that Kaia got her transmitter last year. Really makes you wonder - was their meeting an enormous coindicence, or have they somehow planned this... We need a stork thought transmitter next.

[Francesca_V]

And I really would like to understand weather storks recognize eachother.
They obviously do not recognize their offspring otherwise the experiment with the foster child Bonus last year would not have worked.
And do the partners recognize outside of the nest? Or are the just foreigners to eachother?

[Swenja]

September 30th
Karl II, Metsoja and Kaia, as shown in OrniTrack this early morning.

Many thanks @Anne7

Thank you @Francesca_V
Metsoja is also somehow "Karls' family" by now.

There must be countless storks (white and black) just there in this area!

[Anne7]

Hi Swenja and Hulbi

And I really would like to understand whether storks recognize eachother.
They obviously do not recognize their offspring otherwise the experiment with the foster child Bonus last year would not have worked.
And do the partners recognize outside of the nest? Or are the just foreigners to eachother?

Hi Francesca

I am personally convinced that Karl II and Kaia recognise (know) each other. And as for Bonus, I am of the opinion that they realised there was suddenly a strange chick on their nest. They accepted him/her, even though they probably had no idea where that storklet suddenly came from. As a rule, birds are not aggressive towards juveniles.
Humans have had the tendency for centuries to underestimate (or ignore) the intelligence of animals, and birds in particular. Recent research increasingly shows that this is very unjustified.

“Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.”

Birds have completely different brains and senses from us humans. They live in a different universe, so to speak, with different information, needs, rules and norms. But it is not because they are completely different that they are stupid. Not at all!
The longer I observe Black Storks, the more they surprise me.

[Francesca_V]

Yes, it is very interesting to learn more about birds.

Not far away from my town is a Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, and they also observe birds. They have even developed a transmitting system that ist independent of GSM and GPRS.

Well, there are a lot of bird experts, and I even thought about contacting them and asking them all i want to know about birds.

[Anne7]

This is such an amazing observation. Here it really pays off that Kaia got her transmitter last year. Really makes you wonder - was their meeting an enormous coincidence, or have they somehow planned this... We need a stork thought transmitter next.

A very fascinating question, Hulbi.

Personally, I don't tend to believe in enormous coincidences. But who's to say?

Either way, it's extremely interesting to be able to observe all this.

[Jo UK]

KAIA

Tracker Map
October 1, 2023

Distance. 222km
Battery. 92% - 100%

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Later, we shall see where Karl II is, today.

[Francesca_V]

And Kaia and Karl II have really spent the night at the same place.

[Swenja]

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Kalvi, October 01

2023-09-30, 16:48 UTC - 2023-10-01, 16:46 UTC

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Battery: 100 %
Distance: 12,8 km

Kalvi is near Tsalapitsa and Saedinenie, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria.



Here Kalvi forages in the fields.

[Bea]

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WABA

Hello everyone

▶︎ TRACKER MAP
WABA 30.09. - 01.10.2023
From 30.09._17:03 until 01.10._17:02

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Distance: 12,3 km
Battery: 75 %

Waba is still enjoying the banks and fields along river Danube in Romania, west of Rasova

[Swenja]

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Karl II, October 01

Last data received by GPRS: 2023-09-30 20:45:45 (UTC+3)
Next data session expected: 2023-10-02 20:45:45 (UTC+3)

Karl II did not send any usable data today. The data session is empty.

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