Barlinek. The oldest fish in Poland is building a nest

When the fish appeared in the nest, everyone thought it was a migrant from Finland, because such wedding rings he had on his leg had not been used in Poland for years. The numbers of the destroyed ring were only read after a few days. As it turned out, this is the oldest recorded fish in Poland. The ornithologist, who rocked him 23 years ago, is 90 years old today. It was in his honor that the bird got the name Nestor.

He appeared for the first time in a specially created artificial nest near the Barlinek Forest near Barlinek (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) on April 9. He had an old ring on his leg, whose numbers were hard to read.

– We thought it was not a Polish bird, these wedding rings are no longer used. We thought they were fish from Finland And he will fly away, and he began to build a nest, bring sticks – says Dr. Dariusz Anderwald, president of the Eagle Protection Committee. – We devoted a few days to determine what a wedding ring. After analyzing several dozen photos, we put the code together and it came out: BA00645, Poland. It was hard for us to believe it. We sent it to the ornithological station and confirmed that it was Polish fish. The wedding ring was so unusual, because old, from 2002. We no longer use such – he adds.

He got the name Nestor

The artificial nest is built by people at the BTS tower at a height of 60 meters. Only thanks to installing the cameras online did they learn that this extraordinary guest settled them.

Dariusz Anderwald says it is a “golden shot”. There are only 40 such artificial nests for fisheries in Poland, only three in the Barlinecka Forest.

– This is an amazing discovery, fish is an extremely rare species. Today it is in the 24th calendar year. And this is a migrant, he years thousands of kilometers. We don't know where exactly, but it winter in Africa. Every season covers a huge distance. To illustrate this, imagine that he has flown about 230 thousand for his long life. km and ate about 4,000 kg of fish – says the president of the Eagle Protection Committee.

They had to analyze dozens of photos to read the code from the wedding ring

The oldest recorded fish in the world is from Great Britain, it is a female at the age of 28. Now they found a 24-year-old male in Poland.

This bird was rocked as one of the two chicks, Adam Mrugasiewicz in the Smolary Forestry on June 24, 2002. The ornithologist was 67 at the time, today he was 90 in his honor of the Fish he got the name Nestor.

– Despite the old age, the bird tries to build a nest and waits for a partner. You can see that this is not his last sentence – adds Dr. Anderwald.