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Hello, all crane friends!

 

This year is once more an official crane monitoring year. The nest survey has already been made and now counting of the migration flock gatherings is coming.

 

This autumn the monitoring period is September 17th to 30th, core days are September 23rd to 25th.  Counting (preferably on the flight to night quarters, if necessary also in fields in daytime) and the data submission form are as in previous years. The data can be sent directly to me (aivar.leito@emu.ee); however, all who are used to  the e-Biodiversity database and prefer data input there are welcome to use that.

 

In any case it is important to note for each observation the exact location, time, habitat, the number of birds and their activity and the observer(s). Also we ask you to please count and note geese and other waterfowl stopping in the same place / with the cranes. It would be good to have all data by October 15th, by which time the crane migration usually is at an end.

As of now, in most of the crane monitoring areas counting has been arranged with the observers but several less regular and smaller resting places are not yet definitely covered. So it would be particularly welcome if resting cranes can be counted in the Helme-Koorküla area in Valgamaa, in Kliima-Matsuri  and Obinitsa-Tabina in Võrumaa and Varangu-Vajangu and Ohepalu in Lääne-Virumaa. 

 

Of the four young cranes that were tagged with satellite transmitters in summer two have started their migration:  cranes  Hauka (from Hauka at Valgjärve) and Ahja3 (from  Ahja). Crane Hauka reached the Seda area in northern Latvia on September 10th and Ahja 3 is south of Minsk in Belarus. Crane Ahja2,  tagged last summer at Ahja, spent the whole summer in southern Belarus near the Ukraine border.

 

See also the migration map:

http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/

 

Presentations of this year’s cranes are coming.

 

Best regards,