Practice makes the master

Life is going on in the storks nests across Europe. The nestlings are growing, and even though they are still mainly thinking about eating and drinking, they are already preparing for the first big journey.

Their wings are getting bigger and stronger, and they are practicing their first flight. Practice makes the master, and they must become masters soon.

We must say goodbye to them soon, but in the next few weeks we will be able to watch their first flights. If you cannot observe because there is not a stork's nests near you, then watching through the webcams and the video below as well! ;-)

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What did the storks do in their nests in January?

What? If they were at home, mainly stood in the nest and didn't do anything else.
Of course this was just a joke. Or not? :)

#WSWW2019 in January:

• Total number of nests observed: 112
• Total number of observations: 756

When White Storks were observed in one of the nests, they stood in 89.1 percent of the cases. In addition, they often were sitting (12.6%) or preening (10.9%). Rarely observed when the Storks arrived or fly away. For more details look at the graph below.

As most of the working webcams are in Germany, of course, the observations were mostly in german nests.

In January, 88 observation forms were uploaded from Höchstadt's webcam nest! 

The only time that 3 adult Storks were observed in a nest was also here. :)

You can see below how frequent the observations were in  hours of the day, and the Storks presence / absence in the nest.

Summary of the first two months

The blog started 2 months ago, so it's time for a brief summary.

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Already 177 webcams available on the Map, from 14 countries.

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In January we started collecting the monitoring data and after 20 days we have 534 data in the database. Up to now 101 different webcams have been observed.
Of course, most of the nests are still empty, so the observations are not frequent, but from March this activity will certainly be more interesting.

Some graphs of observations

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