Tootsi (2025) - Pärnu County, offspring of Kergu and Kerli

[Lenasylwa]

Lena, thx a lot.
In my opinion, hunting does not belong in our century.

Yw, Marika.
I completely agree with you.

[Lenasylwa]

These are just statistics about poachers.

[marika.solo]

Sep 12, 2025, 10:43 PM

Carsten wrote that information presented in media, is not from him. He
is not convinced if that all is truth. Time will show, tomorrow the
further examination of dead body will happen (probably). There is a
wound, but Carsten could not say why it is.

Also no data today from transmitter, probably transmitter is in fridge
with no GSM coverage inside.

[Pavel kunetek]

Preji dobre rano Marika,to je zajimave,co rika ten ornitolog,podle zprav by mel byt u nalezu Tootsiho,takze budeme dal cekat

[marika.solo]

Dobrý deň Pavle,
pán Carsten Rhode je svetovo uznávaný expert na čierne bociany. S p. Urmasom Sellisom majú dlhoročné aj osobné kontakty. A zhodou okolností býva asi hodinu jazdy autom od miesta úhynu bociana. Výslovne som to nikde nečítala, ale z napísaného predpokladám, že to bol práve on, kto bol prvý pri bocianovi. (Viem, že Urmas ho hneď kontaktoval.)
Musíme trpezlivo čakať na výsledky ďaľších vyšetrení, dnes má byť necropsia (pitva) - röntgen nič neukázal.

Mr. C.R. is a world-renowned expert on black storks. He and Mr. U.S. have long-standing and also personal contacts. And coincidentally, he lives about an hour's drive from the place where the stork died. I haven't read it explicitly anywhere, but from what was written, I assume it was him who was the first to reach the stork. (I know that Urmas contacted him immediately.)
We must patiently wait for the results of further examinations — the necropsy is scheduled for today — the X-ray didn’t show anything.

[Pavel kunetek]

Dival jsem se na dostupne informace o panu Rhodeovi,je to uznavany odbornik na migraci oznacenych ptaku,jezdi ruzne po svete,,dobre ze tam jel prave on

[marika.solo]

Daj si tu u nás na fórume do vyhľadávača "Carsten Rohde" a nájdeš rôzne informácie

[marika.solo]

more to the situation in this thread Discussion about migration

- post there please (newest post: viewtopic.php?p=51997#p51997)

[Lenasylwa]

New information!

"A young Black Stork that grew up in the Kergu webcam nest and started migrating on August 17, 2025 with another chick from the same nest (Vihm). The youngest chick (Iksi) was still in the nest at that time. The tracking device was installed on the chicks of this nest as part of the monitoring of the Black Storks of the Tootsi-Sop wind farm impact. According to the transmitter data, the fledged young birds did not fly to the wind farm area either during the flight exercises or during the start of migration. Tootsi and Vihm migrated together for the first two days (including crossing 150 km of the Gulf of Riga), after which their flight paths diverged in Lithuania. Tootsi's migratory instinct leads him to the western migration route, but his migration route ended in northern Germany on September 10. The tracker data showed that Tootsi landed near Greifswald and did not fly again. He walked along the bank of the ditch for a few hours and finally died there. We could only see this from the data the next evening. Our colleague Carsten Rohne drove there the next morning and found Tootsi's remains. They were taken to the Greifswald Zoo and the police were also notified. The police issued a press release that an Estonian black stork had been shot in Germany - their initial observation somehow gave reason for such suspicion. However, Tootsi's body was taken to the Rostock research laboratory, where an autopsy did not identify the shooting, but an attack by a larger bird of prey. The bird of prey was probably an white-tailed eagle, from whose claws Tootsi escaped, but had to give up his life."

Source:https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2025/aut ... =0&speed=1

[marika.solo]

It's a big relief to me that humans played no role in it, but it's still very, very sad.
Unfortunately, in such cases, stress alone can be deadly. (Predator-induced stress can significantly increase mortality risk, even without direct injuries.)

more: viewtopic.php?p=52097#p52097