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

Land, Meadow, Africa, Botswana, Above, bird,

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

Black headed ibis bird with a snake kill in its beak with use of selective focus

Wattled Crane, Grus caruncula, Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Botswana, Gruiformes, Gruidae. Threatened and vulnerable.

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