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The white stork is a species of large bird, its plumage is mostly white with black on the wings, and the legs and beak of the adults acquire a red color. It measures an average of 100 and 115 cm from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and its wings can have a wingspan between 155 and 215 cm.

The white stork is a migratory bird of great distances. It passes the winter in Africa from the sub-Saharan zone to the south, in the Indian subcontinent and in areas of the Arabian peninsula. When migrating between Europe and Africa it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea, so it makes a detour by the Mediterranean Levant in the east, or by the Strait of Gibraltar in the West, because the thermal columns that it needs do not form on the water.

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The white stork is a species of large bird, its plumage is mostly white with black on the wings, and the legs and beak of the adults acquire a red color. It measures an average of 100 and 115 cm from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and its wings can have a wingspan between 155 and 215 cm.

The white stork is a migratory bird of great distances. It passes the winter in Africa from the sub-Saharan zone to the south, in the Indian subcontinent and in areas of the Arabian peninsula. When migrating between Europe and Africa it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea, so it makes a detour by the Mediterranean Levant in the east, or by the Strait of Gibraltar in the West, because the thermal columns that it needs do not form on the water.

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#2 #Nest nº2

In August and September the white storks leave the nesting areas in Europe and fly south towards Africa. There they spend the winter in the savannahs from Kenya and Uganda to the south to the province of Cape in South Africa. In these zones they congregate in great flocks that can exceed thousand birds. Some diverge to the west, to the west of Sudan and Chad, and even to Nigeria. In the spring the birds return to the north, passing through Sudan and Egypt between February and April. They arrive in Europe around the end of March and April, after a journey lasting an average of 49 days. By comparison, the fall trip is completed in about 26 days. The presence of tailwinds and the shortage of food and water along the route - ships tend to fly faster in regions with no resources - increase the average speed of travel.

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#3 #Nest nº3

In order to avoid a long passage of the Mediterranean Sea, the birds of central Europe either follow a route of oriental migration - in which they cross the Bosporus in Turkey, they cross the Levant, and follow the Nile towards the south of the valley, avoiding the desert of the Sahara - either follow a western route through the Straits of Gibraltar. These migratory corridors maximize the use of thermals and thus save energy.

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#4 #Nest nº6

The main sound produced by the adult white stork is the crotoreo that performs with the beak, whose sound is similar to that of some castanets. The stork emits this powerful sound by opening and closing the beak in fast sequences, producing a rhythmic patter, amplified by the gular sac acting as a resonator. Croatian is a means of communication that is used in a variety of social interactions, generally becoming stronger the longer it lasts, and adopts characteristic rhythms depending on the situation; For example, becomes slower during copulation and shorter when emitted as an alarm signal.

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#5 #Nest nº1

The white stork was classified as a "species under minor concern" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It benefited during the Middle Ages from certain human activities, such as the cutting and clearing of forest areas, but changes in agricultural methods and industrialization made its population decline and even caused its disappearance in some regions of Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .

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#6 #Nest nº5

White storks depend on thermal columns to be able to plan the long distances of annual migrations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. For many birds the shortest route would take them across the Mediterranean; However, as thermals do not form over water, they generally prefer overland diversion to avoid trans-Mediterranean flights that require prolonged vigorous flutter.

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#7 #Nest nº4

Juvenile white storks that embark on their first migration to the south, do so in an inherited direction; However, if they are displaced by adverse climatic conditions, they do not have the capacity to compensate and may end up in a new wintering place. In contrast, adult birds can compensate for strong winds and adjust their course to end in traditional wintering areas, as they are familiar with their location.

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