White Stork

Meet the White Stork!

The white stork is a migratory bird that announces the good weather with its arrival around February.

The adult specimens have orange and red bills and legs, while the young are black.

What are its habits?

After wintering, storks will return to their breeding sites in Europe, always going to the nest they abandoned the previous year, where they will meet their breeding partner. The nests are usually built on top of towers and in churches: they are platforms of branches up to two meters in diameter.

They greet each other by clacking their jaws together, developing a sonorous chattering sound called “croaking”.

Conservation

Extinct

Extinct in the wild

Critically endangered

Endangered

Vulnerable

Near threatened

Least concern

Insufficient data

Not evaluated

DID YOU KNOW ...

The stork is the image of birth in many cultures. In the European culture the origin of the myth takes place in the pagan era. At that time summer was associated with fertility, so couples used to get married during the summer solstice. At the same time, storks began their migration, returning just.