Alcalá is well known for its population of white storks.

The typical storks include the White Stork and six other extant species, which are characterised by straight bills and mainly black and white plumage.

* a lot of white storks and their nests

There is a small zoo with some major domestic birds and it is one of the few places in Belgium with a population of white storks.

Having a length of 17 kilometers and 1. 2 kilometers at its widest part, the island has many natural attractions like the fine sand dunes where speed lovers can use their four wheel drive vehicles ; an impressive fresh water well with a depth of 97 meters, making a paradise like oasis of date palm trees which are a sanctuary for many species of birds like the gray and white pelicans, corvetta, gray crested cranes as well as storks and albatrosses.

The African Rift exhibit includes reticulated giraffes, Grant's zebras, sitatunga, and white storks in a large open area.

There are horse trails through the biosphere, game viewing and bird watching – especially the thousands of white storks that inhabit the reserve.

The varied fauna of this place has the white stork ( Ciconia ciconia ) as its most significant animal because the population of storks, not only in the Natural Monument, but also in the rest of the municipal territory, is one of the biggest in Europe.

The Monorail is a 20 minute, one-mile, narrated ride, which travels around the Rain Forest ( okapi ), Mountain ( Nubian ibex ), Woodlands ( Grevy's zebra ), River ( waterbuck, greate white pallicans, Goliath herons, blue cranes ), Arid Desert ( scimitar-horned oryx, Addra gazelle ), Semi-Arid Desert ( addax, gemsbok, ostrich ) and Bush ( gerenuk, red-crowned cranes, greater kudu, Thomson's gazelle, Marabou storks ) exhibits.

The establishment, in 1975, of the Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António Marsh Natural Reserve provided a refuge for several species of migratory and marine birds, namely mallards, flamingos, Kentish plovers, little terns, pied avocets, dunlins, stilts, white storks, and spoonbills, while at the same time protecting breeding grounds for local fish and crustaceans.

File: Yellow-billed_stork. jpg | Juvenile yellow-billed storks have grey backs, mature birds have white backs.

Rather, they concluded that azhdarchids were more likely terrestrial stalkers, similar to modern storks, and probably hunted small vertebrates on land or in small streams.

A Ciconia bone found in a rock shelter on the island of Réunion was probably of a bird taken there as food by early settlers ; no known account mentions the presence of storks on the Mascarene Islands.

An ancient etymology based on mere similarity of sounds linked pelasgos to pelargos (" stork ") and postulates that the Pelasgians were migrants like storks, possibly from Egypt, where they nest.

The LCP facility had been declared a Superfund site when it closed in 1994 and was already under scrutiny by the EPA when Service biologists discovered mercury poisoning in endangered wood storks on St. Simons Island.

However, in the late 20th century some ornithologists argued that they are more closely related to storks on the basis of karyotype, morphological, and behavioral data.

While many wetland birds are flushed by birds of prey, these storks are not usually intimidated and on the other hand can be quite aggressive to other large water-birds such as herons and cranes.

Like other storks, they are often seen soaring on thermals.

Like other storks, the Asian Openbill is a broad-winged soaring bird, which relies on moving between thermals of hot air for sustained flight.

The tower owes its name to storks which have nested on its top.

Ephippiorhynchus storks, like most of their relatives, feeds mainly on fish, frogs and crabs, but also on young birds, and other land vertebrates.

Many cities in Europe take pride in their local population of storks, which nest on roofs or in church towers that replace the trees they would naturally nest in.

They discover that the roofs on the village's homes are pitched so steeply that the storks cannot find space to nest on the sharp ridges, and placing a wagon wheel on each roof ridge would give storks a place to nest.

Flocks of up to 15 storks have been observed in Australia and India, and appear to form due to local habitat conditions such as drying out of wetlands.

When prey is contacted, the storks close their bill, draw it out of the water, and throw their head back to swallow.

After the river channel was straightened, 40, 000 acres ( 160 km² ) of floodplain below Lake Kissimmee dried out, reducing the quality of waterfowl habitat by ninety percent, and the number of herons, egrets and wood storks by two-thirds.

When she writes an essay for school that asks why there are no storks in their village, the teacher encourages the class to find out for themselves.

Unlike most storks, the three Leptoptilos species fly with the neck retracted like a heron.

Like most storks, the Black-necked Stork flies with the neck outstretched, not retracted like a heron.

Compared to other large waterbirds like cranes, spoonbills and other species of storks, Black-necked Storks are least abundant in locations with a high diversity of waterbird species.

The juveniles assume a brownish plumage and like most other storks reach breeding condition after two to three years.

The Asian Openbill like many other storks forages at wetlands, reaching them by flying with wing flapping interspersed with gliding.

* Walt: The natives look a bit like a mix between storks and ostriches, and are famous for their dancing prowess.

Like most storks, these fly with the neck outstretched, not retracted like a heron ; in flight, the large heavy bill is kept drooping somewhat below belly height, giving these birds a very unusual appearance to those who see them for the first time ( see here

Like most storks, they fly with the neck outstretched, not retracted like a heron ; in flight, they present a strange shape, with the head and large bill somewhat drooping down.

Usually the end of the period is connected with the first signs of the coming spring-blossomed trees, meeting of the first spring birds like storks, swallows or cranes.

Bird watchers anticipate migratory birds here like teals, garganeys, pochards, medium egrets, large egrets, night herons, pond herons and open-billed storks every fall season.

The fact that flamingos share parasites with ducks and geese is evidence these groups may be more closely related to each other than either is to storks.

By way of an example, the narrower definition excludes storks and gulls, which can eat quite large fish, partly because these birds catch and kill prey entirely with their beaks, and similarly bird-eating skuas, fish-eating penguins, and vertebrate-eating kookaburras are excluded.

Indeed, they may be more closely related to storks than these are to herons.

Although herons resemble birds in some other families, such as the storks, ibises, spoonbills and cranes, they differ from these in flying with their necks retracted, not outstretched.

More typically, these storks measure across the wings, which is about a foot less than the average Andean condor wingspan and nearly two feet less than the average of the largest albatrosses and pelicans.

Though known to eat putrid, smelly and seemingly inedible foods, these storks may sometimes wash food in water to remove soil.

Freshwater, artificial wetland habitats used by these storks include flooded fallow and paddy fields, wet wheat fields, irrigation storage ponds and canals, sewage ponds, and dry floodplains.

Raccoons and other storks ( including their own species ) are occasion predators of jabiru eggs, but most nest predators appear to avoid these huge-billed birds and there are no known predators of healthy adult Jabirus.