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Silent Wings - Lapwing tracks

Drahuš

Sex: female

Transmitter: 0B00

Monitored from: 25.4.2024 (Třesovice, CZ), to: 20.12.2024 (Larchant, FR)

Year 2024: During the 2024 breeding season, she was captured in a field between Mokrovousy and Třesovice, where she likely successfully hatched chicks. However, she probably lost them later. In the second half of May, she nested again at the same location, but after 10 days, the nest fell prey to predation.

At the end of May, she left the Hradec Králové region and traveled through Austria to Slovakia, where she stayed for several days, 40 km north of Bratislava. From there, she returned and roamed northwest of Hradec Králové, mainly around Světí. Like Amálka, she also spent time at the sand quarry near Lhota pod Libčany in July.

Drahuš was the last of all the tagged lapwings to migrate. In November, she was observed in a flock with about thirty other lapwings in eastern Bohemia. Finally, on November 26, Drahuš left the Czech Republic, taking a route past Munich, significantly further south than the other lapwings. On November 29, she arrived in France. In December, she stayed 60 km south of Paris near Nemours. She wasn't until January that its transmitter sent its final data, revealing that she had perished in a field near the village of Larchant over Christmas. However, the exact cause of death remains unknown. 

DRAHUŠ ON THE MOVE

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