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Among the stories in Magazine this week: a Moravian man visits five
Slavkovs in three days on a wooden, pedal-less precursor to the bicycle; a
museum dedicated to a film character who never was draws Czechs and Slovaks
but confuses foreign visitors; the country's most famous bus is saved from
the scrapheap; and an unusual hobby - renovating an old military fortress.
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This week: response to a listener's letter aired in previous Mailbox; black
storks and their migration routes. Listeners quoted: Stephen Conlin, UK;
Robert Davis, US; K. Shyam Sundar, India.
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One on OneLubomir Peske - the curious lives of black storks
In today's One on One Jan's guest is ornithologist Lubomir Peske, who has
been involved at every stage of the Odyssey projects - a series of
tracking expeditions supported strongly by Czech Radio and greeted
enthusiastically by listeners - that uses satellite to monitor the lives
of black storks. These days projects include New Odyssey, tracking
specimens travelling south from Mongolia to winter. But in this interview
we discuss the project's fist inception, African Odyssey, which tracked
birds flying from the Czech Republic to countries in Africa. That was the
first time anyone has attempted to track black storks by satellite for a
longer period of time. More
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In this week's Mailbox: Radio Prague's reports on tracking black storks and
Czech aid to hurricane stricken areas; Emperor Charles IV's Autobiography;
famous personalities on Czech banknotes. Listeners quoted: Mike Styles,
UK; Jayne Cookson, US; Nancy Snider, US; Joe T. Vosoba, US; David Cradock,
UK. More
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The town of Bozi Dar is experiencing a gold rush! Students empty barrels of
slime outside the Czech government headquarters. And - sorry about the
inconvenience! - motorway construction workers give a stork a new home for
the price of 6,000 euros. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsAn early bird has become Plana's spring mascot
Winter is still holding the country firmly in its grip but the town of
Plana, on the Czech Republic's western border has good reason to believe
that spring is just around the corner. The first harbinger of spring - the
white stork - has just arrived back from the shores of Africa and set up
home in the best storks' nest in town.
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Wintering in Bohemia: thousands of Bohemian waxwings have descended on the
Czech Republic. The adrenalin road race Gumbell 3000 will pass through
Prague this year. And the 15 year old Czech who became world hacky sack
champion just two years after taking it up. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarova.
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MagazineNew Odyssey - Part Two
Ever since 1994, Czech Radio has been taking part in a project which
involves tracking black storks to their wintering grounds in Africa and
India. The aim of the project is not just to help establish the various
migration routes that these birds take every spring and autumn but to help
protect them along the way. The sad outcome of last year's endeavour - two
of the three storks to which zoologists had attached satellite
transmitters were shot by local hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the
third is missing -underline the importance of this work. Lubomir Peske is
a zoologist who has been involved in the project since 1994 and has been
to the studio on previous occasions to tell us what is new. He visited us
again last week prior to his departure for Siberia and I asked him to tell
me what the New Odyssey team hopes to achieve.
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Current AffairsNew Odyssey - tracking black storks to their wintering grounds
Czech Radio is co-organizer of a project which involves tracking black
storks to their wintering grounds in Africa and India. The aim of the
project is not just to help establish the various migration routes that
these birds take every spring and autumn but to help protect them along
the way. The sad outcome of last year's endeavour - two of the three
storks to which zoologists had attached satellite transmitters were shot
by local hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the third is missing
-underline the importance of this work. Lubomir Peske is a zoologist who
has been involved in the project since 1994 and he is off to the black
storks' breeding grounds in Siberia this Friday for the latest stage of
this experiment.
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MagazineNew Odyssey - tracking black storks to their wintering grounds
Czech Radio is co-organizer of a project which involves tracking black
storks to their wintering grounds in Africa and India. The aim of this
project is not just to help establish the various migration routes that
these birds take every spring and autumn but to help protect them along
the way. The last experiment conducted with three black storks to which
zoologists attached monitoring devices in Siberia last autumn shows how
important it is to try and ensure their greater safety. Two of them
perished - Katarina, a stork that had been monitored for four years, was
shot in Pakistan, Peter's flight ended somewhere in the Afghan mountains.
The fate of the third stork -Roman -is unknown. Lubomir Peske is a
zoologist involved in the project :
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