Döbelner storks: Successful youngsters and born young animals!

Döbelner storks: Successful youngsters and born young animals!

In Döbeln there is reason to be happy: the storks got plenty of youngsters this year. Kai Schaarschmidt, the Storchen representative for Central Saxony, was again in action this week to go to the feathered residents of a historical industrial complex. A pair of stork has built a nest on a 26 -meter -high chimney of the car dealer Daniel in the past four years and is growing three young animals this year.

In the first year of the settlement, four chicks have already slipped, but the rearing of the small storks was not always without difficulty. The breeding success failed only once because of lack of feed. In the current year, however, feeding is ideal, which is shown in the good nutritional status of the three young birds. Two of them are larger than the third that slipped a little later.

The Provision of the young animals

The ration represents an important measure for researching the storks. Schaarschmidt captures the rings during his controls with a special climbing set and iron bars. Since the ratio is on the left leg in odd years, the newcomers come with a stable plastic ring and a metal ring. On average, storks are between eight and ten years old, but the oldest known stork has reached the impressive age of 30 years.

In order to get to the nests, the stork representative climbs the high chimneys in his free time because he does not have access to all private property. In total, he was able to make 36 young people this year. In Hartha there is another nest with four young storks, while in Polditz, the oldest stork location, no breeding success could be recorded this time.

storks under observation

The accompaniment of the Bering story not only has regional character. In other regions of Germany, stork representatives have taken on similar tasks. As an example, both the Markus Hörster on the rating of young storks in Osterode as well as the npz that explains how the rings are put on the storks. In Switzerland, where young animals are equipped with rings on the right leg, one prefers to go to Geraden years. These different approaches show how important the exchange and cooperation between the stork officers are.

At the end of the day it will be shown whether the measures will bear fruit. Reza Rahmati, the owner of the property, was initially hardly enthusiastic about the storks because their feces sprayed his used cars. But increasingly he could perhaps recognize the advantages of the crowd, which are increasingly developing a magical part of the Döbelner cityscape.