WABA (2022)

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WABA (2022)

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in this thread we follow WABA (hatched 2022) from the streamed nest in Karula National Park (we follow Waba's 2nd spring-summer migration)

WABA colour ring number 718W 3CY
(CY = calendar year; birds are aged as the number of calendar years they have lived in, with the year they were born in as the 1st calendar year and increasing past every January 1st.)

data source: https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2024/spr ... =0&speed=1

birdmapdescription:
Juvenile Black Stork grown up in the nest of Karula webcam. One of three local chicks, with a foster chick added as a fourth. In order for the young to be in normal condition by the time they leave the nest, we fed the parent birds with fish. The parent birds took the fish to the nest and all four chicks got enough to eat. Waba started the autumn migration on August 28, so one day after the other fledglings flew out of the nest. In four days, he reached the Ukrainian-Moldovan border areas and stayed there for a week. In two days, he flew to the central Bulgaria, where he stayed for two days. Next, a week of flying to the Middle East, where he stopped for a few days in the Jordan River Valley and fed on fish ponds. Reached Africa a few days later across the Red Sea over Hurghada. Two days later, Waba reached the Nile, where it wintered in various places until mid-January. He then moved along the Atbara River to the agricultural area of New Halfa and is still there in March. On three occasions, Waba has tried to fly further east to the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia, but turned back. Probably there was too dry and no water.
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WABA is most probably the eldest offspring of Karl II and Kaia hatched in the season 2022.

Spring migration 2024
The autumn migration stops in mid-February and the spring migration continues from the following day, the 15th = the bird map is set for spring migration and the new distance measurement starts from 15.02. However, the birdmap is sometimes ready a week or two later.
Our storks appear on the map continuously when they reach areas with GSM coverage after starting their journey north.


first bidmap update: 02.05 (Egypt, Safaga)

0/ departure/migration started on April 28 from Ethiopia
- Sudan (28.04) - Eritrea (28.04) - Sudan (29.04) - Egypt (30.04)
- 02.05 Waba stayed on the shore the Gulf of Suez

1/ crossing the Gulf of Suez on 03.05.2024
- Waba flew over the Gulf to El Toro area
- Egypt/Sinay Governorates (03.05) - Jordan (03.05) - Syria (04.,05., 06.05) - Turkey (06.05)

2/ crossing the Gulf of Iskenderun on 06.05
- Waba didn't fly over the Gulf but around
- Turkey (06.,07.05 - waiting on favourable weather: 08.-11.05, 12.05)

3/ crossing the Sea of Marmara on 12.05
- Waba flew via the Marmara Islands
- EUROPE: Bulgaria (12.05) via Turkey, Greece - Romania (13.,14.05) - Ukraina (15.05) - Poland (16.05) - Latvia (17.05)
- Estonia/Saarema Island (18.05) - Estonia -mainland (20.-23.05)
- Russia (some short trip to Finnland), Dymovo (24.05 -

continuation
- Autumn-winter migration 2024-2025

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- Autumn-winter migration 2023-2024 viewtopic.php?f=89&t=140

- SPRING-SUMMER 2023 viewtopic.php?f=101&t=159
(I am gradually adding the data, I accidentally deleted the entire documentation when moving it to the archive)

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28.08.2022 (last seen on the nest - 13.16.52 Waba took of)
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May 1
Hello everyone :-)

Waba is already near Hurghada - Egypt

( 2023: first data arrived on 28.04 from Egypt, South Sinay Governorate - Waba crossed the Gulf of Suez viewtopic.php?p=26618#p26618)

I hope that the other young storks will soon send data from their spring migration from Africa somewhere north
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From: Ethiopa
To: Egypt/Hurghada

FIRST data:
- 01.05.2024, Distance: 3178 km
- AFRICA, EGYPT - Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate
(to the west from this populated place on the Red Sea mountains/Eastern Desert)

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the Red Sea Mt. there - somewhere here Waba spent the night 01./02.05
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PHOTO Piotr Harton https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1 ... kaNy=h1440
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Wow, great news :D , thanks Marika.
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- 01.05.2024, Distance: 3178 km
- AFRICA, EGYPT - Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate
(to the west from this populated place on the Red Sea mountains/Eastern Desert)

NEW data
- 03.05.2024, Distance: 3710 km (+ 532 km in 2 days)
- JORDAN: Dana Biosphere Reserve

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Dana Biosphere Reserve
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/yNcFGDTT7jXqVSme7 by Anna Calderon Photo - Oct 2019

Dana Biosphere Reserve is a part of a larger ecologically important area identified by Birdlife international as Dana Important Bird Area (IBA).
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Wadi Dana, Jordan - A Travel Guide to Attractions


by Empowerment uploaded on 07.01.2024
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Previous data
- 03.05.2024, Distance: 3710 km (+ 532 km in 2 days)
- Jordan: Dana Biosphere Reserve

NEW data
- 06.05.2024, Distance: 4533 km (+ 823 km in 3 days)
- TURKEY: Çaygeçit - a village in in Kadirli district of Osmaniye province

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wider view on that area from the Resadiye Mosque

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by Yakup Coşkun Photo - Nov 2020
https://maps.app.goo.gl/VRiAMGVjseCuzajY9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1zVn9zGCTkXesAFa8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EHL4QiMCTMyvdouLA
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5euxFwEWezmUVHN28
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5QRhXYFRBFoFTEzj9

Waba spent the night on such an el. mast (maybe)
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(zoomed) https://maps.app.goo.gl/jddsaEX1xzoaTQa56 by Yakup Coşkun Photo - Nov 2020
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04.05.2024

(after my holiday I will complete)
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05.05.2024

(after my holiday I will complete)
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