Latvian black storks - 2018
Posted: March 20th, 2018, 10:53 am
Latvian black storks 2018
Welcome to the new season 2018!

Welcome to the new season 2018!

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Jānis Ķuze wrote:Par melno stārķi - būvēšanas darbus plānojam veikt šo piektdien. Ja viss ies, kā plānots un nebūs pārsteigumu tehnisku ķibeļu veidā, nākamnedēļ šai ligzdai vajadzētu būt "gaisā".
On 13 Mar 2018, 14:07 Liz01 wrote:
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About the Black Stork
We plan to carry out construction works this Friday. If everything goes, as planned and there will be no surprises in the form of technical kits, next week, this nest should be "in the air".
https://dabasdati.lv/forums/viewtopic.p ... 85#p173885
On 13 Mar 2018, 16:25 Dagmar wrote:Thanks Liz!
Somehow I missed the connection.
We have 5 owlets in the nest. I am completely in love and almost can not see what is happening around me.
On 19 Mar 2018, 06:43 Liz01 wrote:March 19
If all goes well, on 21.03. the black stork nest will be online![]()
On 19 Mar 2018, 08:48Solo wrote:
On 20 Mar 2018, 06:22 Liz01 wrote:March 20
Good Morning Solo![]()
the cam is online![]()
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtz4qewj2Y0
Nest Info (youtube)
BLACK STORK
The nest of the Black stork is located in the middle part of Latvia in Sigulda County. It is found before two years. The breeding area is known already since 1982. In 2005 previous nest was predated by marten, and, most likely, birds moved to the current nest afterwards. This nest has been built in a pine, on the branch 1.8 m from the trunk. It is located in boreal pine-spruce forest of an age between 150 and 200 years.
In 2017 a trail camera was installed at the nest. Four nestlings hatched and three of them fledged; the last fledgeling left the nest late in the season - on September 6, presumably due to belated start of breeding. The webcam is installed on 16 March 2018 by Jānis Ķuze, Jānis Rudzītis, Māris Strazds and Eduards Ozoliņš.
On 20 Mar 2018, 06:30 Liz01 wrote:6:27 A nuthatch visit the nest
DD Forum:
https://dabasdati.lv/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3864
Liz01 wrote: ... the cam is online... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtz4qewj2Y0
On 20 Mar 2018, 07:46 Solo wrote:Good morning Liz and all![]()
what a good morningthe wheater is terrrible in Europe - I saw photos, vids, ... with WS in very big hardships
(viewtopic.php?p=569039#p569039)
I hope the pair from this nest and all "our" storks are O.K. and we will see them on their nest (I wisch all bird only the best)
On 20 Mar 2018, 09:18 Liz01 wrote:9:17 snow![]()
Liz01 wrote:The cam is online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtz4qewj2Y0
On 20 Mar 2018, 10:11 baska wrote:Super !Thank you for the hint !
And TY for the news of Gallipo, Solo. They had the second egg already yesterday.
Hellem wrote:![]()
Interesting, this nest has the same type of construction like Karl's nest, it hangs on the branch
ok, here are copies of the posts which a relevant for the season 2018.On 20 Mar 2018, 14:24 Liz01 wrote:Also three storklets.. a good place![]()
nice light
There is a very interesting article by Maris Strazds on Goris. Distinguishing marks male and female.Liz01 wrote: August 8th, 2018, 6:08 am Email from M.S
1) Start of migration. Departure from nest does NOT mean immediate start of migration. Some birds do but many hang around for quite some time. This can be identified for tagged bird ONLY, all other „data” are speculations. I do not know what the english version of Vikipedia (in general poor source concerning BS) quotes but very likely those can be birds from western flyway – France and Belgium. Even if the figures are correct from the right sources, those birds are very different from eastern flyers (like ours or EE storks are), so cannot be used as a reference concerning thoughts „when will these juveniles start migration?”. Czech birds fly both ways so those data must be devided per flyway before quoting. Another important aspect is extra 1000-1500 km birds from LV and EE shall fly. It adds some time that they require to make it happen.
Data (unpublised so far) from 22 LV storklets that started migration at all (from 27 tagged), the mean age of start of migration is at least 89.7 days, min. 73.4, max 142.2 days. Of those 5 birds that reached age of 1 year, mean age is 90.5 days (Mellene – 92.5, Kate – 85.4, Sarma – 115.2, Raitis – 83.0, Mare – 76.4).
2) Small fish they eat now almost 100% is Neunstachliger Stichling / nine-spined Stickleback (Pungitius pungitius).
EDIT: M.S. both oldest storklets today are 80.6 (now) and 80...., not 81 (2018-08-06) it was wrong written in the chat
M.S.....Nest - this year they won't do anything since it makes no sense. It has been fallen down before this year at least twice - and has been restored in the same place. After winter nothing may remain there - if support branch remains, they might rebuild it within a few days. May not. This is actually very interesting document to see how it happens - as it has happened repeatedly in other nests too - exactly around the time of departure and in some cases has caused departure. It is obviously a good indicator of poor nest site (location in tree) wich in turn is indication of lack of good sites altogether.
.........this very interesting voice (+ behaviour) – bird points beak up, inflates beak sack and „hisses”
This behaviour happens again and again when some juveniles are in nest and some other juvenile arrives - what is important is the voice. I've never heard such one in other conditions.
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Liz01 wrote:Solo,:hi: the infos are already here:laugh: : viewtopic.php?p=569261#p569261
Solo, I was not awake this morning!Solo wrote:I have idea about this, but I was already tired
Hi, Sapsan,Sapsan wrote:Hello -
have a question: is YouTube the only source to observe the black storks nest ? No direct stream available ?
cheers Sapsan
The YouTube display is a direct live streamSapsan wrote:Hello -
have a question: is YouTube the only source to observe the black storks nest ? No direct stream available ?
cheers Sapsan