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Every year, millions of migrant birds leave their nests and head south. This year, you have an unique opportunity to follow them on their way. Join us online and watch the pilgrimage of 5 black storks (Ciconia nigra) from Central Bohemia to tropic Africa.

Kristyna returned to reside on äher palmô for the forth time in a roll Black stork female Kristyna has been under African Odyssey observation for four years. This week, she returned to her usual winter habitat near Khossant (Eastern Senegal territory). With a little luck, she is sitting on her favorite palm now. This year, Kristyna left the Brdy Hills together with her ähusbandô on September 18. In France, they each went their separate ways. Kristyna flew across western Pyrenees (September 30) and the Strait of Gibraltar (October 11). On October 20, she was south of Sahara. She stopped for two weeks about 150 kilometers from her winter habitat. She was flying average of 350 km per day. Right now, she is 4700 kilometers far from her nest in the Brdy hills. This yearÆs observations focused on Kristyna revealed several interesting issues. The black storks keep both their nesting and winter habitat locations unchanged. Although the actual journeys may differ, the birds always find the same winter habitat. This fact is interesting as a theoretical news and for the stork protection. KristynaÆs forth journey with her communication set has laid some challenging questions. The satellite pictures reveal that number/length of stops between southern edge of Sahara and the winter habitat is dependent on vegetation growth stage in these areas encountered in the first third of September. KristynaÆs ähusbandô David is still residing in Guadalquiviru river delta (southern Spain), where small stork groups spending their winter time have been reported. David has probably already reached his winter habitat. The African Odyssey project is organized by Czech Radio 2 - PRAHA, the satellite tracking system is sponsored by DHL International Czech Republic. Miroslav Bobek, Czech Radio 2 - PRAHA One of our storks shot by a French "hunter" The Stork Shooting Case Goes On

Wanna know who is flying up there? The family includes: female stork Kristyna, male stork David and their babies (male storks named Ondrej, Hynek a Jonas).

What can you see:

Kristyna and David - coordinate archive for the stork "parents"; individual stops/the whole journey may be drawn into a map.

Baby storks - the same archive as the previous one; contains data for Ondrej, Hynek and Jonas.

Affrican Odyssey - everything you ever wanted to know about the project.

Kristyna LIVE - from May to August 1998, live Internet sessions have been broadcast right from the black storksÆ nest.