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Black stork (Ciconia nigra)

Size:

     European white stork+

Field Characters:

     Above-black, highly glossed with green, bronze and purple. Below-lower breast, belly, flanks and under-tailed covert white.

 Food:

       Carnivorous: Fish, frog, insects, added to with an occasional young or disabled bird or rodent.

 Nesting:

     Season April-May

 

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