A White Stork from the Kaliningrad region of Russia was taken into captivity as a nestling in 2000, raised at the Biological Station Rybachy and released after a retention experiment in September. The bird was tagged with a satellite transmitter 14554 as part of an investigation of the orientation abilities of juvenile White Storks. In the first autumn, the bird moved towards the SW, even though the normal migratory direction for the storks from Kaliningrad is SE. The bird crossed the Mediterranean from France to Tunisia, and spent its first winter and second summer in North Africa. It spent its second winter in the Lake Chad area, in northern Nigeria and Cameroon. In summer 2002 it was in the Iberian peninsula, in winter 2002/2003 in the southernmost part of Spain. At the age of 3 years this bird returned to the distribution area of East European White Storks. It spent the summer (possibly bred) in northern Poland, 220 km SSW of its natal site. Autumn migration 2003 followed the eastern flyway typical of East European White Storks. When in Africa, the bird moved far to the W, to western Chad, so that its wintering area 2003 was only 175 km away from the area that had been reached in 2002 via the western flyway.