Black Storks Online 2023 – watch an amazing species! We broadcast straight from the nest on the oak tree in the province. Lodz.
Black Storks Online (2016-2023) is an educational project of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Łódź in cooperation with the University of Łódź – Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection. The substantive supervisor is prof. Piotr Zielinski. Bartosz Janic, Piotr Zieliński, Michał Strawiak and foresters from the RDSF in Łódź participated in the field work. Watch an amazing species – we broadcast straight from the nest on an oak in the province. Lodz (exact location is kept secret).
Important dates :
March 31, 2023 – probable arrival of storks
04/09/2023 – first egg 3:35:19
04/12/2023 – second egg 23:43:31
April 14, 2023 – third egg 23:00
April 16, 2023 – fourth egg 22:10
14.05.2023- 4:44 hatching of the first baby, 7:00 hatching of the second baby
15.05.2023- 8:36:40 third baby hatching
17.05.2023-5:17 hatching of the fourth baby
17.05.2023-loss of a baby due to an attack by a tawny owl
23.05.2023 – hawk attack and kiwaczek kidnapping: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=638…
16.06.2023-21:01 second successful hawk attack, knocking the young one out of the nest: https://www.facebook.com/LasyPanstwow…
3.07.2023-Fernando Ringing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTMS…
23.07.2023-Fernando’s first flight: https://youtu.be/AEiORcBU68M
Attention! The live broadcast from the nest of black storks may contain drastic scenes for a young viewer.
Available lesson plans about the black stork for primary school grades 1-3, 4-6 and 7-8 – please contact us at: Rzecznik@lodz.lasy.gov.pl
The nest is situated in oak tree in the forest managed by the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Lodz. The live stream is the result of cooperation of the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Lodz and the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz. This Black Stork online educational project is intended to educate viewers by showing nature in a real fashion. Thus, anything can happen. We do not intend to intervene. We observe, admire and let nature take its course. More about the project: https://www.facebook.com/LasyPanstwow…