Black Stork
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Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) is a scarce winter visitor and passage migrant in India. Size: 90-100 cm.
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Black Stork
Ciconia nigra
The Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) is a widespread species of southern Africa. The one shown here was in Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa in January, 2006.
Black stork populations plummeted in the first three quarters of the 20th century because of loss of habitat. However, numbers have increased significantly enough to call it an imppressive ornithological event of the last twenty years.
Black Stork Ciconia nigra - Adult in flight from below
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Black stork (Ciconia nigra)
White-winged tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)
Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Meadow viper (Vipera ursinii)
Geoffroy's bat (Myotis emarginatus)
Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) ...
The migratory species like the White Stork and the Black Stork soar on broad wings and rely on thermals of hot air for sustained long distance flight.
long European white stork has a red bill and legs, is regarded as a good omen, particularly of fertility, and was encouraged to build its platform nest on House stops. This bird is common from Holland to the Balkans. The black stork of Asia is ...
Woolly-necked Stork, Ciconia episcopus
Storm's Stork, Ciconia stormi
Maguari Stork, Ciconia maguari
Oriental White Stork, Ciconia boyciana
White Stork Ciconia ciconia
Black Stork Ciconia nigra ...
The black stork of Eurasia, C. nigra, is smaller and wilder. Largest of the family are the saddle-billed stork of Africa and the adjutant storks of S Asia and tropical Africa, ...
 See also: Stork, White stork, Ibis, Purple, Eagle
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