Have you seen the size of Infante’s nest?! 😮

#WhiteStorks add new nest material every year, and nests can become HUGE! Comparing Infante’s nest with the one on the left (which fell in 2025 and is still being rebuilt) really puts it into perspective.

The start of the field season also means seeing old friends again!

This is Odiaxere (73+), an adult female we tracked with a GPS from 2018–2022, that is resident in southern Portugal. So good to see you again, Odiaxere!

#WhiteStorks #ornithology #ecology 🌍🧪

Special delivery: white storks make historic return to the Midlands | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has announced an ambitious new project to reintroduce white storks and establish a healthy breeding population in the Midlands, more than 600 years after they vanished from t...

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has announced an ambitious new project to reintroduce white storks and establish a healthy breeding population in the Midlands, more than 600 years after they vanished from the region.
#WhiteStorks #Derbyshire #Birds

www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/news/special...

What a patriotic stork!
#WhiteStorks are known to bring human-made items to their nests (often with negative consequences – see our paper: tinyurl.com/58rupn7t).
But this one brought a Portuguese flag! These chicks will get their first geography lesson as soon as they hatch!
#ornithology

Our local stork colony has started to return from migration a couple of weeks earlier than usual. In 1974 there were just 9 breeding couples in Alsace (11 in the whole of France!) but after breeding/feeding programmes we now have thriving autonomous migratory colonies. #Alsace
#WhiteStorks #Cigognes

Lachmöwen auf der Suche nach Fressen im Schlick

2 Brandgänse auf der Suche nach Fressen im Schlick

Ein Graureiher stakst über eine Weide

2 Störche auf der Suche nach Fressen auf einer Weide

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #walking ,birds walking. The alternative theme is #birdinabush any bird in a bush.
Here is a set of #Walking #Birds: #Black-HeadedGulls, #Shelducks, #GreyHeron and #WhiteStorks
#Birding #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin

Los #Barruecos, in Malpartida de Cáceres ( #Extremadura, #Spain), is a stunning natural monument of granite formations, ponds once used for wool washing, and rich wildlife ( #whitestorks, #grebes and #cormorants). Declared a natural monument in 1996 by the Junta de Extremadura

📦 News just in! London is buzzing about the White Storks in London Project 🕊️ Huge thanks to @UniofBrighton @RewildingB & @iGiGL.

💬 Have your say: Thoughts on Storks Survey: https://ow.ly/aHsu50WzwRR

#UrbanRewilding #WhiteStorks #NatureRecovery #Rewilding

Wow!: Denmark records highest number of white stork nestlings in decades - Sight Magazine ALI WITHERS, of Reuters, reports from Copenhagen on the return of white storks to the Scandinavian nation...

Wow!: Denmark records highest number of white stork nestlings in decades. ALI WITHERS, of Reuters, reports from Copenhagen on the return of white storks to the Scandinavian nation… @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Wow #Denmark #whitestorks #StorksDenmark #HansSkov

sightmagazine.com.au/wow/wow-denm...

Aerial view of a white stork nest in Portugal with four chicks sitting in the middle of it, surrounded by discarded plastic, rope and baler twine which has been used to build the nest.

The harmful impact of discarded plastic materials on young birds has been revealed in a new UEA study – which found that chicks are dying after becoming entangled in synthetic fibres used to build their nests. 🪹

Read more:
bit.ly/44Rzzmy

#ThisIsUEA #PlasticPollution #WhiteStorks

📷Marta Acacio

Imagine that you’re a parent of three infants and your babies are swinging around long, sharp blades trying to entice you to feed them! White storks do this everyday! #birds #birdwatching #nature
#wildlife #bird #birding #spain #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography
#whitestorks

Nesting Stork on a pole

Stork in her nest with her fledglings

Spotted white storks nesting on tall poles at Venta del Caldero, near Plasencia. These artificial nesting platforms are a win for bird conservation efforts. Just 17 days on, the fledglings are growing fast. Nature thrives when we lend a hand. #vanlife #whitestorks #birds
🇪🇸🐾🚐🪶
tinyurl.com/ep9629px

Our baby #WhiteStorks are growing fast! We use a telecopic pole with a camera to monitor the storks' nest and assess breeding success!

#ornithology

Every year, fewer #WhiteStorks cross the Straits of Gibraltar on their annual migratory journey. In this paper, we unveil the mechanisms driving the recent and rapid loss of their migratory behaviour.
👉besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-265...

Mechanisms underlying the loss of migratory behaviour in a long‐lived bird White stork populations in Iberia are undergoing a profound change in their migratory patterns, becoming mostly resident. By combining census data, GPS-tracking and genomic analyses, Andrade et al. l...

So happy to share our paper on how #WhiteStorks are changing their migratory behaviour. Check it here:
👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Mechanisms underlying the loss of migratory behaviour in a long‐lived bird White stork populations in Iberia are undergoing a profound change in their migratory patterns, becoming mostly resident. By combining census data, GPS-tracking and genomic analyses, Andrade et al. l...

A large proportion of the white storks in southern Europe no longer migrate. Our new paper examined the mechanims behind the loss in migratory behavious with several methods including tracking data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #whitestorks #animalmigration

It happens now !!!!! The male White Stork checks the first egg at Ságvár, Hungary. (www.youtube.com/@madarles)
#birds, #WhiteStorks, #nature, #webcams, #madarles

time flies and the first #WhiteStorks eggs are already hatching! Look at this!
#ornithology

White Storks mating in Ságvár Hungary/Madarles (madarles.hu)
#birds, #nature, #webcams, #WhiteStorks, #Madarles

White Storks at Ságvár, Hungary/Madarles
#WhiteStorks, #birds, #nature, #webcams, #Madarles

In Portugal, it's been raining almost continously for the past few weeks - very unusual for this time of the year! And as our poor #WhiteStorks are battling the storms, we are struggling to reach their nests without snorkels and flippers! :)

The breeding season of #WhiteStorks has already begun, so it's time for the seasonal migration of our team to Southern Portugal to study these amazing birds!

Exciting to have ITV Meridian visit the storks at @kneppwilding.bsky.social! 🎥

Check out their feature on the White Stork Project⬇️
youtu.be/Y3wB7PYf-LU?...

#WhiteStorks #Rewilding #Knepp
@kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social

Nest-building, bonding, and mating are in full swing for the storks at @kneppwilding.bsky.social

Ania & Bartek are busy prepping their nest— working together, both birds will bring materials.

Here, Bartek hauls hay from nearby stables. No eggs yet, but watch this space!

#WhiteStorks #Rewilding

CHEEKY. You leave your nest for 20 seconds and look who moves in.

(Didn't take Ania and Bartek long to reclaim their nest.)

Watch the white storks live cam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0li...

@whitestorkproject.bsky.social #whitestorks

A Point of View - Geese, Aristotle and Migration - BBC Sounds Rebecca Stott ponders the theme of migration, with help from Aristotle.

Chuffed to hear our white storks being discussed on BBC's A Point of View, from around 2 mins 15: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#rewilding @whitestorkproject.bsky.social #storks #whitestorks

Hi, I'm Şeniz and as a recent master's graduate my background focuses on researching the diet of #reintroduced #whitestorks. I'm also a youth panel member of Butterfly Conservation, a campaigner for #inclusion, and event coordinator for the Sussex Mammal Group 🦋

Frankfurter Storchennachwuchs Tag 61 (18.06) (2)
Weitere Fotos.
Die Beute war wohl eine Wanderratte... wie und wo konnte dann der Papa-Storch ihn finden und fangen? #birds #WhiteStorks #nature

Frankfurter Storchennachwuchs Tag 61 (18.06) (1)
Heute gab es einen großen Futterkampf zwischen den Jungstörchen. Papa-Storch brachte eine Beute ins Nest, die einen langen Streit ausgelöst hat.
Aber eh.. was kann DAS sein? ... Eine Wanderratte? #birds #nature #WhiteStorks