White stork

White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
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The White Stork is famous for building its large stick nests on top of buildings and other structures when suitable trees are unavailable.

White Stork
White stork
Photo by Chuck Dresner
Geographical Range
Europe, western Asia, central and southern Africa
Habitat
Grasslands, marshes, and farmland around human habitation
Scientific Name
Ciconia ciconia
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White Stork
Storks are almost voiceless; the only sound they make is a clattering of the beak. They are completely diurnal in their hunting and are usually found in flocks, but split into pairs during the breeding season.
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The white stork belongs to the most famous birds. Not only because of the myth linked between newborns and storks, but also because of its natural beauty and elegance.

White Storks are tall (1 m., 2.3-4.4 kg) long-necked wading birds with long bare red legs and a straight pointed red bill.

White Stork Ciconia ciconia asiatica - Adult in flight from below
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The European white stork often lives and nests near humans, favoring tall trees, chimneys or rooftops for nesting sites. The species is monogamous, meaning breeding pairs mate for life.

The White Stork
Just the Facts: The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

The white stork is the symbol of The Hague in the Netherlands and the unofficial symbol of Poland, where about 25 percent of European storks breed.

In Europe, White Storks were once considered to symbolically be responsible for the arrival of babies, and though this idea is not taken seriously the imagery has caught on.

White stork (Ciconia ciconia)
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in the White Stork Ciconia ciconia nests in a stork colony in Klopot (W Poland) (PDF) in Pinowski, Jan (ed.) (2005). International Studies on Sparrows. 30. pp. 39-41.
^ Czechowski, Pawel.

- Abdim's storks Ciconia abdimii and European white storks Ciconia ciconia are called "grasshopper birds" in parts of Africa because they feast on swarms of the insects.

Unlike the White stork Ciconia ciconia, which is a bird from the countryside and the steppes, the Black stork is primarily a forest species.

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.

In Europe the white stork, Ciconia ciconia, (c.40 in./100 cm long, with red bill and legs) is regarded as a good omen, particularly of fertility, and is encouraged to build its platform nest on housetops. It is common from Holland to the Balkans.

See also: Stork, Heron, Ibis, Vulture, Eagle