Stork nest with her ​​chicksStork, Traveling between continents,Danube Delta, Romania,

Traveling between continents
Of all the protected areas of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve , though even some not so valuable as colonies of birds. Some permanent , some temporary settlements represent some of the most sought after areas , so those who make observations, the researchers, but unfortunately hunters .
Bird colonies are inventoried in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve 100 . Most of these colonies are mixed, cormorants , spoonbills , tiganusii , herons , egrets and other species enlivened and nesting together , but there are monospecific colonies . Among the latter , the best known is the Rosca Buhaiova where there is the largest colony of white pelicans ( Pelecanus onocrotalus ) in Europe. Colonies are found almost everywhere in the Delta , and some of the most numerous are those of Uzlina , Crazy , Sacalin - Zatoane Purcelu or South Reserve from Grindul Chituc wolves . Fortunately , none of these colonies not on the map , and those wishing to make comments are not indicative figure only information just to try to protect the species , especially during nesting .
stork nest with her ​​chicks
White Stork leaves us in the middle of August, early September. First time going pups that will be followed after several days by adults. Nor parents traveling together : the connection between them is falling apart at the end of the nesting season .

In general, groups of storks traveling over a hundred birds. Because of their size and wing long and wide , storks can not perform active flights beatings of wings a longer period of time. Thus, they are forced to walk most of the way through the flight plan. To this end , storks use warm ascending currents are formed on landfall . In these places , the warm air rises like a chimney bearing up and storks . Rotating winged storks reached in 3-4 minutes heights of 600-800 m, then one by one begin to leave the current trend. In a broad front , the probability of finding another upward flow increases. In gliding flight , slides 3-50 miles until the next " horn " where the process described is repeated . Naturally, storks migrate only during the day and only over land , for surface water above does not form warm ascending currents .

Based on the approximately 30 000 ringed storks found , we know that storks bypass Mediterranean Europe in two ways : Birds of Western Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar migrază and storks from Romania along with other birds from Central and Eastern Europe arrive in Africa by crossing the Bosphorus . Based on the approximately 400 ringed storks in the Carpathian Basin , found later in Africa , we know that our birds wintering areas stretching from the Nile to southern African ancestry . Lately, storks migration is monitored using radio transmitters . Satellite tracking data obtained by the 120 back storks which were also attached radio transmitters shows that migration speed is 30-90 km / h and a walk in one day storks average distance of 220 km. It was also found that lately the species wintering areas moved further north : more and more birds wintering in Western Europe in Spain and Eastern Europe storks more rarely get to South Africa.
Preferred parking areas storks in Africa open land grass ( savanna ) . You spend time feeding and resting until return . Our storks feed mainly on insects in Africa .
Spring , storks are back on the same route that it crosses and autumn , but spring migration is faster. Young storks nesting not return home , they wander along the path of migration by age 2-3 years. They begin to hatch only at the age of 3-4 years , they reach sexual maturity . Generally looking for a nesting place located at a distance of 50-100 km from their place of birth, but sometimes it happens to come to nest at much greater distances .