White stork migration route
12 White stork tracks from animals tagged in Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior stork tracking (1991 to 2017 data). Pick one and press play to draw its route day by day.
- Scientific name
- Ciconia ciconia
- Tagged in
- Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior stork tracking (1991 to 2017 data)
- Years recorded
- 2008 to 2016
- Animals on this page
- 12 (of 49 in the dataset, longest records first)
Drawing the map.
Records by animal
| Animal | Recorded | Days | Distance | Longest day | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91931B | 2010-06-16 ~ 2016-12-05 | 2,340 | 27,210 km | 415 km | 7: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria |
| 77195A | 2008-06-19 ~ 2013-05-15 | 1,648 | 98,314 km | 565 km | 27: Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Israel, Czech Republic, Mozambique, Lebanon, Jordan, Hungary, Ethiopia |
| 93411A | 2009-05-01 ~ 2012-05-02 | 817 | 36,828 km | 587 km | 26: Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Slovakia, Poland |
| 90979B | 2010-06-16 ~ 2012-05-07 | 692 | 17,464 km | 481 km | 7: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Western Sahara |
| 93412A | 2009-05-01 ~ 2011-05-26 | 662 | 43,153 km | 581 km | 23: Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Palestine, Lebanon, Slovakia, Syria, Ethiopia, Bulgaria |
| 54983B | 2013-07-01 ~ 2015-08-28 | 661 | 38,879 km | 704 km | 20: Germany, Poland, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Lebanon, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Palestine, Hungary, Slovakia |
| 917920371 | 2011-07-15 ~ 2013-04-15 | 587 | 35,180 km | 499 km | 18: Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Palestine, Ukraine, Jordan, Chad |
| 90959B | 2010-06-16 ~ 2011-11-30 | 525 | 17,093 km | 449 km | 9: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon |
| 91899B | 2010-06-17 ~ 2011-05-31 | 349 | 7,619 km | 416 km | 5: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali |
| 918220372 | 2011-07-15 ~ 2012-05-30 | 321 | 15,942 km | 534 km | 15: Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Sudan |
| 91926B | 2010-06-16 ~ 2011-06-21 | 314 | 7,770 km | 442 km | 6: Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Western Sahara |
| 90973B | 2010-06-16 ~ 2011-03-16 | 274 | 11,109 km | 433 km | 6: Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Algeria |
Distance adds up straight lines between one point per day. The real path was longer.
Countries are counted only where a daily point falls inside a border. Points at sea are not counted.
Red List status
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Where this record comes from
Citation (as given)
Berthold P, Kaatz C, Kaatz M, Querner U, van den Bossche W, Chernetsov N, Fiedler W, Wikelski M. 2022. Data from: Study "MPIAB Argos white stork tracking (1991-2017)". Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.k29d81dh
License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Original data (DOI): doi:10.5441/001/1.k29d81dh
We reduced the original data to one point per day and removed points that jump away from the days around them.
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