LSE on Birdmap 2023-24

[Treia]

Hi again,
where are Hellem and Sova?
My regards to them!

[sova]

Hi again,
where are Hellem and Sova?
My regards to them!

Hello Treia, best greetings to you too

look, we are here
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[Treia]

Thanks for the information Sova

All big birds of prey sometimes seem a bit scary with their bloody meals (although I understand that it is the law of nature), but the chicks are still very cute.
For example, when I read about the monk vulture recently spotted in Finland, I dreamed that it tried to take my cat. Fortunately and for my pleasure , the cat was quick and managed to escape.

An article about the monk vulture in a Finnish language magazine:
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/c198 ... 0dcca80ea1

[Hellem]

sad news

May 2 - birdmap update
Karin - 12.04 (no new data) - distance 8455 km (+1333 km in 9 days), she sent data near Toygarlı in Türkiye

From Birdmap - 12.04.2024
Lesser Spotted Eagle Karin was shot in southern Turkey.

[Liz01]

sad news

From Birdmap - 12.04.2024
Lesser Spotted Eagle Karin was shot in southern Turkey.

Hellem, thank you!
that are very bad news! I hope all other will survive

[sova]

Hellem, thanks for the info.
Liz

A bird flies back and forth for 12 years and somewhere an idiot thinks it is the center of the world and decides to wipe out a life just like that.
I feel obliged to capture Karin's final location in pictures.
Oh Karin, I'm so sorry.....

[Bea]

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There is a real Individualist and Separatist among the LSEs at this autumn migration - Iivar

Not only that he is nesting with a GSE female instead a LSE female, he also has very own ideas about how to migrate to southern wintering grounds








This is what is written on the birdmap about Iivar:

A Lesser Spotted Eagle male (Iigar) nesting with a Greater Spotted Eagle female (Iiga). They both are tracked within the project GSELIFEAboveBorders. 2024 was a successful year for them, one (hybrid) juvenile was raised. The chick was already able to fly when we found the nest, so it remained unringed.
Iigar started the 2024 autumn migration at noon on September 15. His migration path is usual up to Moldova, then Iigar turned to the east and crossed the most active section of the front of Ukrainean war and reached southern Russia on September 29. He seems to be migrating to Africa around the Black Sea?


We will see what he is going to do ......

[Bea]

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With last data from 7. October we can see that meanwhile our 'Separatist', LSE Iivar, circumnavigatet the eastern part of the Black Sea and is crossing Türkiye now





It looks he would join the 'usual flying route' at the Gulf of Iskenderun


He made a lot of additional kilometers by chosing this eastern route
Well, he may have his reasons .....

[Hellem]

Bea, thank you

10.10 - Our "separatist" Iigar is already in Lebanon, near Beirut (distance 3992 km)

[Bea]

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Hellem and all

Yes, the 'separatist' Iigar has given up this status and is now on the 'usual' route to the wintering grounds, like other LSEs

Iigar´s whole route until now (data from 10.10.)


As expected, he entered the 'usual' route east of the Gulf of Iskenderun in Türkiye


Now we see him not far from Beirut (Lebanon), the whole wide area there is dangerous, be careful and stay safe, Iigar!


I am already curious now, which route he will take home in spring!

[Bea]

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Hello everyone

I am happy to see LSE Iigar back on the birdmap, I had already worried that he might have 'vanished' .... We saw him on birdmap the last time in the area around Beirut, a dangerous area ... so I asked Urmas about the situation and got this reply:

LSE Iigar appeared in network in Uganda 23 March, but sent only data from wintering site up to 28 Feb. No more locations, yet. For Africa it is nowadays reality - no roaming in many countries.

Short after this reply Iigar was back on the birdmap, with missing data, but main thing is that there were some data hick ups at all
Here he is shown in Malawi, data point from 28. February



I am so very curious which route he will take home, after he surprised us flying the eastern route around the Black Sea at autumn migration.
He can be elsewhere meanwhile, last sign from being in Uganda was 23. March, that´s already a week ago. Hopefully he will send new data soon.

[Hellem]

Bea

Iigar does it again, 7.04 distance 8897 km - he is flying the eastern route around the Black Sea and sent data near the village of Guliani in Georgia

[Bea]

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Hellem

Yeeees, Iigar is back on the radar and look which route he is taking home --- also now in spring he prefers to fly the eastern route around the Black Sea

[Bea]

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Hello everyone

Who of this couple GsE Iiga and LsE Iigar will be home in Estonia first?

Iiga on the western route or Iigar on the eastern route?






It looks like Iigar makes a short pit stop in Georgia at the moment