July 23
Good Morning
Made, thank you.. but this are very bad news
He was a adult breeding stork!
Yesterday by combining the Poland trip to Mare place to download data from the transmitter, we also went to Aivo's last known place from where the last transmitter signal arrived in April.
Unfortunately, the story of Aivo has already ended on April 24th - when he returned to Poland from the flight to Latvia, hurrying near Belostock in a swarm of meals, he was probably surprised by fox.
At that moment, when we left and found the last coordinate of Aivo GPS and seeing the surrounding bushes, which only looked nice and beautiful in April, it was actually a great disbelief that nothing could be found anywhere, except for harvest bugs. The first one managed to see the bald bones, where the black feathers also appeared, blended with the color of the earth, but there was no transmitter with those feathers. In the end, looking and combing the bumps and soaking the legs in the muddy water, finally managed to find the second stack of feathers and, with it, the small transmitter box, exactly 24 meters from the point where the last coordinate was in the spring. The transmitter fox most likely on the same day left drowned in water and after the water had dried it was no longer able to work and send coordinates.
The reasons why Aivo decided to turn back in the spring is unlikely to ever be known. But it's possible that one of the reasons might be the drought in the spring, which made Aivo decide better not to go back to his nest in Latvia. Especially considering that at that time the season for the start of the breeding season had already begun to end.
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