Abstract
STORKS nesting east of the River Elbe have been found to use the Asia Minor route when migrating, and those nesting west of the Elbe are stated to take the route through Spain. The winter quarters of European storks is Natal and near the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and Danish storks have been described using the route through Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, to cross the Bosphorus to Asia Minor, but evidence of ringed birds reaching the Nile across the Mediterranean or through Palestine seems lacking, though prior to ringing, Shaw has described the annual migration from Egypt over Mount Carmel as occupying three hours. The Danish storks leave in late August and arrive at their winter quarters, 7,500 miles away, in about two months, though the return migration is quicker. Of 125 young storks bred at Rossitten, on the Asia Minor route, and released at Essen, on the France and Spain route, on September 12, to see whether the migration route is hereditary, reports indicated many following a south-eastern route, though two have been shot on the Loire, in France.
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Migration of Storks. Nature 132, 509 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132509a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132509a0