Storks are raising melodramas: are you fighting with each other?
Ornithologists say storks were returned to the Pomeranian transmitters on March 11th.
« We live with them at that rhythm. It is sad when we fly out, lack something, and we are very happy when they fly in the spring, » said Ventė resident Romas Škadauskas.
The storks of the Ventė resident’s outbuilding have been developing for 30 years.
« We drink morning coffee by observing our storks. Just routine occurs when the storks are hatched, then the feeding process. We look at everything, » said the Ventė resident.
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In the spring, you have to see a fierce battle for the nest.
« The couple has occupied our nest, and other storks are already attacking this nest, fighting with each other, » said R. Škadauskas.
When asked if he said, he replied, « Yes, the fighting storks fall off the roof. »
Ornithologists have been watching the stork of this socket themselves for 7 years. It concludes that her life story is unique. The stork female crossed the nest for 4 years more than a kilometer from there. When the male died – the widow was not long, he quickly settled with another.
« That new partner was unhappy. He saw his image on the windows, shiny surfaces, struggling with himself. The female grew up in the same nest, emigrated successfully.
The rest of the stork brought another, younger himself. The former stayed completely, lived with one stork in a nest last year, and this year even two males were replaced.
« We have already noticed such signs of infidelity this spring, as there are birds labeled in the surrounding nests. We saw this female already flew to another nest and squatted with another marked partner. V. Eigirdas claimed.
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In this way, stork couples’ main romantic myths of ornithologists are destroying that the couples are creating for life and that they are attached to their nests.
« It seems that monogamy is not that important in the life of storks. It seems that if there is a proper nest, the proper nutritional base is that they change both nests and partners without being tied to it or to it, » the ornithologist emphasized.
There are still a number of empty stork nests in the forest. According to the ornithologist, people should not worry about it. Because of the transmitters, half the storks are just on the way to Lithuania.
« Most of our storks are now no longer in contact with the equator, overwintering at Chad, Sudan.
So, according to the ornithologist, the remaining storks will reach us at the latest in a couple of weeks.
