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Durbe region, Latvia
The webcam shows the nest of a white-tailed eagle in the Durbe region in Latvia. The white-tailed eagle (lat. Haliaeetus albicilla) is a bird of prey from the hawk family.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Boguslavice, Czech Republic
A live webcam is installed at the nest of white storks in the village of Boguslavice in the Czech Republic. 24-hour broadcast from this camera makes it possible to observe birds in real time without interfering in their lives.
Time zone: GMT+02:00. Broadcast quality: 1080p video, 🔊 with sound.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Kozubschina, Poland
Live webcam installed near a pond in a rehabilitation center for storks, Kozubshchina, Poland. The rehabilitation center is located in the village of Kozubschina in the commune of Konopnitsa, 5 km from the borders…
Last online check: today (camera online)
Latvia
The online webcam broadcasts a view of the nest of the Lesser Spotted Eagle, which is located in the central part of Latvia. The camera makes it possible to observe in real time the life of birds of prey in…
Time zone: GMT+03:00. Broadcast quality: 1080p video, 🔊 with sound.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Zemgale, Latvia
Live webcam shows a Lesser Spotted Eagle nest in the Zemgale region in southern Latvia. The camera allows you to observe the Lesser Spotted Eagle family in real time. Birds built this...
Time zone: GMT+03:00. Broadcast quality: 1080p video, 🔊 with sound.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Kozubschina, Poland
The online webcam shows the nests of abandoned storks, which for various reasons were thrown out of the nest by their parents and sent to the stork rehabilitation center in the village of Kozubshchina.…
Time zone: GMT+02:00. Broadcast quality: 1080p video.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Sigulda region, Latvia
Live webcam shows the nest of black storks in real time. It was discovered two years ago in the Sigulda region in central Latvia. The nest is built on a spruce branch on...
Time zone: GMT+03:00. Broadcast quality: 1080p video, 🔊 with sound.
Last online check: today (camera online)
Parainen, Finland
Live webcam shows an osprey nest on the island of Sjölö in Finland. Shelö is a small island (about 2 kilometers from north to south), part of the Nagu Islands, in the Archipelago Sea, near…
Time zone: GMT+03:00. Broadcast quality: 720p video.
Last online check: today (camera online)
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This year, black storks arrived at their renewed nest on April 8th. On the same day, with a small interval, first the male, then the female.
We recognize the male Karl by the rings on his paws and the transmitter on his back. The female Katya is not ringed. The nest is in order and we are waiting for the first egg to hatch.
Today I covered in detail what was happening in the black stork’s nest.
Urmas Sellis will write in more detail about the nest, the arrival of its owners and the entire event.
Black storks on the day of arrival.
Photo from the video series selected Hagnat from the Nature Calendar forum.
We will be following a pair of black storks nesting in Karula National Park for the third year now. About the first installation of the camera and background on the cleanup pageELF(Estonian Nature Foundation) there is a detailedphoto report. By the time the camera was installed this year, the old nest had partially collapsed, which is why we built an “artificial” nest nearby.
Construction of an “artificial” nest.
Last year's nest collapsed.
Probably, the storks themselves would have tried to fix the collapsed nest, but it is unknown whether it would have survived the nesting process. The supporting branch of the old nest has dried up, and the rest of the structure has also fallen into disrepair. We were able to take some of the material for the new nest from the old one, but we also used spruce branches and poles.
“Artificial” nest and old natural nest (top view).
Since the camera was installed late in the evening, its angle had to be adjusted later. And still the angle is not quite right, I messed up something with the angle.
Both birds arrived at the nest on April 8, 2018.
Transmission from the camera is carried out via a linkWi- Fidirectly to the mastTELE2, located in Ansla, via antennaMikrotik. Then the signal goes through the cable to the serverEENet, where the stream is created. At the same time, the stream is created throughYouTube. Different users like different formats. Some restreamers are known to use this black stork camera. For example, according to the environmentok, the restream of black stork cameras had 4 million views in 2017. But, of course, we don’t know all the restreamers.
The use of streams coming from nest cameras is not prohibited, however, if possible, we ask you to inform us about this (see contacts below or send a message tourmas@ kotkas. ee). “Godfathers” who support us are needed for each cell, because... Every year some components need to be replaced. We do not have any project support for this.KIK(Environmental Investment Center) supported the installation of cameras, their removal and maintenance. We also received some donations to support the camera.
A camera is installed near the nestAXIS F41 with a microphone made by Omar. This chamber of black storks was also mentioned in in the AXIS annual report 2017 . We hope that our recommendations will be taken into account in further camera improvements. And all in order to transmit you the best quality video and audio signal.
People who observed the lives of black storks (Katie and Karl) in Karula launched a fundraising process last year in order to equip three chicks this year with transmitters to track them after they leave the nest. We hope that nesting will be successful and we can make it happen! Details about what is happening in the nest can be found at.
For comparison, we advise you to look at what is happening in the nests of black storks in other countries:
Latvia; Hungary
Many people contributed to making the black stork camera work:
Eagle Club
Kotkaklubi
– searching for a nest and installing a camera
EENet
– stream encoding and distribution to users, technical support, recording of material
Beta
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Grupp
– camera testing and setup, microphone construction
TELE
2
– mobile receiving antenna mast, installation of the antenna on the mast,Provofiber optic cable
Black storks- very rare and secretive birds, so it is quite difficult to study them. They live in overgrown old forests, in the foothills, mainly near water bodies, away from human settlements. Sometimes they hover for a long time in the area of the nest, in flight resembling any other stork - with their neck and legs stretched out, their wings spread wide. When flying, black storks produce beautiful calls that sound reminiscent of “chi-li” or “chi-lin.”
Black storks- birds are monogamous, pairs remain with them for life. Storks begin nesting immediately after their return from warm regions, in late March - early April. The pair makes a nest in a tree, occasionally on rock ledges, constructing it from large dry branches fastened together with clay and earth. The same nest can serve for many years, simply by being renewed from year to year. In Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus there was a nest in which storks hatched chicks for fourteen years in a row. Over time, the nests turn into huge semicircular structures with a diameter of up to one and a half meters. Black storks do not form colonies and live alone, so that one pair usually occupies a large territory.
Having built a nest, the male invites the female to breed by performing a mating dance. It fluffs up its white undertail and emits hoarse cries.
Females lay from 4 to 7 eggs, less often 2-3. Eggs are laid at intervals of 2 days, and incubation begins with the first egg. Quite often, one or two eggs in a clutch are unfertilized. Both parents incubate the eggs alternately for 30 days. The chicks are not born at the same time, covered with white or grayish down, with a bright yellow-orange beak, and for the first 10 days they just lie in the nest, unable to even sit down. They begin to stand on their feet at the age of 35-40 days. At the age of 50 days, already fully fledged, but still in the nest, the chicks gain the weight of their parents, then lose a little weight, since their parents feed them less intensively at this time. Young storks fly out of the nest at the age of 64-65 days. Already in early August, families and small flocks of black storks begin to move south, although if there is an abundance of food they may linger until October.
These birds become sexually mature at the age of three.
Black storks They feed on fish, frogs, lizards, small snakes, rodents, large insects, and mollusks. Birds fly quite far for food - five and sometimes ten kilometers from the nest to hunt in swamps, shallow rivers or damp meadows. Parents feed the chicks 4-5 times a day. There is one known case when a bird brought its chicks about fifty frogs at once with a total weight of half a kilogram. Storks regurgitate food for their offspring.
Black stork- one of the rarest birds in the world. Despite their wide habitat, the number of these birds continues to remain very low. There are three regions in Russia with a relatively high number of black storks - the Kaliningrad region, Ciscaucasia and Primorye. In other areas, stork settlements are random and rare. In total, from 2300 to 2500 pairs nest in Russia. According to some estimates, the number of storks is declining; according to others, it remains consistently low.
Black storks have no natural enemies, so the main factors determining their numbers are considered to be a reduction in food supply and the cutting down of suitable forests.
The presence of a nest of black storks in Russia is sufficient grounds for declaring the territory a protected area or, at least, limiting the access of a large number of people to this territory. Bilateral agreements have also been concluded with Japan, Korea, India and the DPRK on the protection of wintering birds. Of course, the black stork is listed in the Red Book.
It is curious that in zoos attempts have been made to cross black storks with white ones, and male black storks even begin to court white females, but due to large differences in mating rituals, females usually do not accept these courtships.
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