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#whitestorks

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Florian Launette
Do you know the legend of the Kindelesbrunnen? The one that tells why storks deposit babies?

This fable was born in Alsace, around 1850. Women who wanted to have a child had to make a wish above a Kinderbrunnen, in other words a "children's well", maintained by a gnome with a white beard. Under the Strasbourg Cathedral there was an underground lake where the souls of children waiting to be born played. Once the wish was made, the gnome took his boat to go and fish out a soul and deposit it on the edge of the well.

This is where our stork arrived and with its powerful beak, it deposited the baby in a basket before carrying it to its cradle.

If the fable was born in Alsace, it is because for a long time, it was the only region where storks were found. In large numbers. Almost every rural village had its nest, which was not the case in the rest of France, where the species was absent or extremely rare.

In Croatia, we are lucky: there are many storks. The White one of course but also the Black one, very threatened and endangered in France.

How I took this photo ? Canon EOS R3 - EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +2x III - 1000 mm 1/2000e f8 Iso 400 Manual Raw Not IA

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It's a picture of 2 forks in their nest. Male is bringing a branch to build the nest. the 2 birds are seen as black silhouette in the sunset
#urbanlegend
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senta_wolfsberg

Moin, not all common #cranes migrating to southern Europe in #winter. As other migrating bird species wintering areas on the #NorthwestEuropeanFlyway are shifting up north-east due to milder #winter|s. So #GrusGrus is now very common, many stay here in the most north of Germany the entire year and they also successfully breed.
Not so long now, until our first #WhiteStorks return (usually around 2nd week of February).
#SchleswigHolstein #Birding #BirdsOfMastodon #ClimateChange #Nature

A group of common cranes on grassland in winter. There is a little bit of snow. In the background maize stopple and trees.
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LadySG

Photographed on 25 September 2023 14.14hrs. #whitestorks #buzzard over our garden.
Our attention was first caught by two buzzards flying silently and as we looked, much higher up was a large gathering which turned out to be white storks. Altogether I counted 14. They must be from the East #Sussex partner outpost of the White Stork Project (#Knepp) which is only a few miles north of us. I reported this sighting to the project even though I couldn't see any leg rings and got a really lovely reply

One of the pair of buzzards flying away from us in a bright blue sky
A picture of the side and roof of our house and top of a tree, looking skywards. On our left is a plane with its trail behind and to the right lots of storks, which only appear like specs of dust on our screens
a close up of one stork flying towards us. Body, neck and top part of the wings in view, are all white and the rear part of the wings is black as are the fringed wing tips
the bright blue sky. I've zoomed in to depict a distant view of some of the storks flying en masse
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senta_wolfsberg

@Orewoet Aww, Espen and Alice are new. May be, they'll fly over my backyard during their #birdmigration to the south :)
This year some of the DK GPS #whitestorks were close to my home, but still to far by bike to make pictures.
I most love Findus. 2 years ago he was in care in SH after he was attacked by a bird of prey. Look, which incredible migration journey he made since the. Findus spents the summer in France. #AnimalTracking #birding
(see also storkene.dk/webcam)

To the left is a map of EMEA displaying in blue the track danish white stork Findus flew during his migration. 2 years ago he was on west flyway, last winter on east flyway and returned back north on west flyway. He travelled 14657 km through 10 countries. To the left is his identidy and overall statistics. Screenshots have been taken from AnmalTracker app.
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