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The document summarizes a study that tracked the migration routes of white storks from Kosovo using GPS loggers. In 2016-2017, several white stork nestlings were fitted with loggers to study their first autumn migration routes from Kosovo to their wintering grounds in places like Tanzania and Sudan. The storks traveled thousands of kilometers and made important stopovers like central Sudan. Ringing of white stork nestlings in Kosovo was also started to help track the population, although Kosovo currently lacks a national ringing center.

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The document summarizes a study that tracked the migration routes of white storks from Kosovo using GPS loggers. In 2016-2017, several white stork nestlings were fitted with loggers to study their first autumn migration routes from Kosovo to their wintering grounds in places like Tanzania and Sudan. The storks traveled thousands of kilometers and made important stopovers like central Sudan. Ringing of white stork nestlings in Kosovo was also started to help track the population, although Kosovo currently lacks a national ringing center.

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Satellite tracking and migration routes of Kosovo White Stork (Ciconia


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IEOC_2018 VI. International Eurasian Ornithology Congress,
23-27 April 2018, Heidelberg

VI. International Eurasian Ornithology


Congress
23-27 April 2018, Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract Book

Editors:
Michael WINK, Tamer ALBAYRAK, İlhami KİZİROĞLU, ERDOĞAN
IEOC_2018 VI. International Eurasian Ornithology Congress, 23-
27 April 2018, Heidelberg

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SATELLITE TRACKING AND MIGRATION ROUTES OF KOSOVO
WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA)
Qenan MAXHUNI1, Wolfgang FIEDLER2, Ahmet KARATAŞ1, Liridon HOXHA3
1
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science-Art, Niğde University, Niğde, Turkey.
2
Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, Max-Planck Institute of Ornithology,
Radolfzell, Germany.
3
Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Faculty of Sciences, Konstanz, Germany

In 2016 - 2017 for the first time in Kosovo a pilot project for White Stork GPS
tracking was started. In 2016 we equipped three white storks (Ciconia ciconia)
nestlings and in 2017 two of them with GPS loggers including accelerometers.
We used this method to study the migratory orientation of juvenile white storks
from the population in Kosovo during their first autumn migration and also
potentially important stopover sites. All data are stored and publicly available in
www.movebank.org. During first autumn migration the storks born 2017
covered a distance of 7978 to 9790 km from their nesting site in Prelluzhe/
Kosovo to their wintering areas in Tanzania. To reach central Sudan, as a main
first stopover site, birds needed around 20 days. At the same time ringing of
White Stork nestlings in Kosovo was started. Although Kosovo doesn`t have a
national Ringing Center yet, the first eight young White Storks have been
marked with rings issued by Max-Planck Institute of Ornithology.
During 2016 migration, one of the birds with loggers has been lost in Turkey
while two of them safely arrived in Sudan but vanished for unknown reasons
(presumably hunted) in November and December 2016. Those three individuals
were tagged in their nesting site Lipjan in the center of Kosovo. Two of the
tracked individuals 2017 have at the end of the year arrived in Tanzania, which
is unusually stopover place for storks migrating from south-east Europe.

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