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White stork (Ciconia ciconia) on the banks of a pond seen from behind

Juvenile White Ibis resting on a park bench in the morning sun.

A white-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus) standing on a post in a grassy field

Portrait of beautiful adult Asian woolly-necked stork or Asian woollynecked, low angle view, half shot, in the morning foraging on the agriculture area in nature of tropical dry forest, northeastern Thailand.

Black stork captured in freedom in the foreground with the sky in the background

Saddle-billed Stork, blue sky background - Kruger National Park, South Africa.

White stork (Ciconia ciconia) standing on its nest on a cloudy day

Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) standing in the tree. Photographed in the Netherlands.

Portrait of a White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) brushing its feathers. Summer meadow. Noord Brabant the Netherlands, Europe. National bird of Germany and Belarus.

$L 95-110cm, wS 180-218cm.\nBreeds in open farmland with access to swampy riversides, marshes and flood lands. Strongholds in E. Europe, declining in NW Europe.\nNests, often in small colonies, in stick nest (man made).\nSummer visitor, winters in tropical Africa.\nNotable passage at Bosporus and Gibraltar end Augustus, returns in April.\nFood: frogs,, insects, also snakes, young birds etc.\n\nIn the Netherlands since some decades more to see in the described habitats. Also due a breed programme in the western part of the country.$