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Stork Travels as of October 5

06.10.2008 - 12:24 |  Kotkaklubi
Tekst by Urmas Sellis
Translation by Scott Diel
Images by Carsten Rohde
Background map by Google Maps
 
Our backpack-bearing Black Storks have all arrived in the right place over the past few days: the Near East. Only one male from Võrumaa (southern Estonia), who we named Valdur (after the artist Valdur Ohakas, who at one time defended the stork's nesting grounds), has not yet arrived. Valdur's last GPS coordinates came from an island in the Doonau River on the border between Romania and Bulgaria. We can assume that he's now moving in the direction of the Near East. The remaining stork locations can be tracked on the map below:
 

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Our German colleague, Carsten Rohde, returned from fieldwork counting banded storks in Israel. To summarize his findings will take some time, but we can report that he saw both Raivo and Oss. He managed to get one very good picture of Oss:

 
Oss with Spur-winged Lapwing.
 
In the Jordan River Valley, the Black Storks frequently rest in dry fishponds and on fields after feeding:
 
Resting Black Storks.
 
Different birds' transmitters send information on different days, so some of our information is always more up-to-date than other data. Also, not all transmissions are successful, so sometimes we have to wait another five days for the next transmission. The map above is the best information we have on all the birds as of October 5.
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