White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
About White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
- Kingdom: Animals
- Phylum: Chordates
- Class: Birds
- Order: Pelicans
- Family: Storks
The white stork is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe north to Finland, northwestern Africa, Palearctic east to southern Kazakhstan and southern Africa. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends for soaring do not form over water.
Source: Wikipedia
Visits
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2001-06-21
Kafue National Park - Busunga Plains, Zambia -
2006-03-23
Sultan's Marsh Bird Paradise, Turkey -
2011-01-13
Bale Mountains National Park, EthiopiaNear Dodola in burned field -
2013-02-19
Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, India -
2015-03-30
Santa Marta Steppe, Spain -
2015-03-31
Trujillo, Spain -
2015-04-01
PN de Monfrague, Spain -
2015-04-02
Embalse de Arrocampo, Spain -
2025-01-23
Salada de Mediana, Spain -
2025-01-30
Maasai Steppe, Tanzania -
2025-01-31
Engikaret Lark Plains, Tanzania -
2025-02-18
Marrakesh, Morocco -
2025-02-19
Marrakesh, Morocco -
2025-02-24
Merzouga, Morocco -
2025-02-25
Zaida, Morocco -
2025-03-01
Fes, Morocco -
2025-03-02
Playa Los Lances, Spain -
2025-03-04
La Janda, Spain -
2025-03-07
La Janda, Spain -
2025-03-08
La Janda, Spain -
2025-03-11
Parque Nacional Tablas Daimiel, Spain
