Black Stork ringing report Germany 2012

2012 was indeed a very successful year for the Black Stork ringing in Germany.
In total, we banded 226 Black Storks in 2012!

The following overview shows all 835 banded Black Storks in Germany 2005-2012:

federal state	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	total
MV	21	27	27	36	31	20	22	15	199
HE	0	0	0	15	22	44	66	55	202
BB	9	5	6	4	4	8	26	11	73
SN	0	14	9	8	7	5	18	27	88
BY	0	0	0	0	9	23	19	13	64
TH	0	0	0	12	6	11	9	37	75
NRW	0	0	0	0	0	8	14	0	22
ST	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	8	22
BW	0	0	0	0	0	6	7	8	21
RP	0	0	0	0	0	4	8	49	61
SL	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	8
total	30	46	42	75	79	129	208	226	835

Black Stork ringers in Germany 2005-2012:

ringer	total banded BS
Dieter Hergott	78
Uwe Albrecht	21
Cliff Riesmeier	7
Mario Firla	8
Carsten Rohde	721

German "T356" - one of three nestlings - ringing on 5 June 2012 in Mecklenburg-Western-Pomerania.

The German Black Stork colour-ring project will be finished by the end of 2015.

What a kind of oak! "T368", "T369" & "T370" - ringed on 6 June 2012 in the "Spree-Forest", Brandenburg.

Great! - four nice nestlings banded on 7 June 2012 near the Lake Constance region in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

2012: 226 juv. ringed = 7 x 5 juv., 23 x 4 juv., 28 x 3 juv., 6 x 2 juv., 3 x 1 juv.
(3,37 juv./ successful breeding).

Three important recoveries of ringed and alive German Black Storks in 2012:  

• one Black Stork in the second calendar year from Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate) wintering in Senegal 2012/13 - distance 4600 km 
• two Black Storks in the first calendar year from two different breeding places in Saxony go to the eastern routes, with a stop in Israel - distance 2750 km

The young BS "TTN" from Saxony with the dirty ring, fish ponds near the border to Jordan. Israel, 26 September 2012.

The other young Saxon BS "TMT" in the Beit Shean Valley near Tirat Zvi. Israel, 6 October 2012.

The young BS "T331" (see to the left one on the ground), ringed on 25 June 2011 in Brandenburg near the border to Poland (14°32' E!) - goes to the western route and wintering the second year in a row on the same location in Spain!

Two Black Storks ("T6H" and "T331") with different breeding places in Hesse and Brandenburg (see green trees) go the second time in a row at the same location in southern Spain to wintering (see red spots).