Stork

There are two routes that are used by the storks to get to their winter habitats, starting at some time in August. One can distinguish between storks that use the eastern and storks that use the western route. The ones using the eastern route(including the storks living in our region) fly via the Balkan Mountains, Bosporus, Israel, Turkey, the Sinai peninsula or following the Nil River to South Africa. The storks using thewestern route fly via France, Spain, Gibraltar to the northern and western parts of Africa. It's quite a long way to cope with. The passage to South Africa, for example, takes eight to fifteen weeks, during those the stork covers between 150 and 300 kilometers daily. The stork returns to its brooding habitat between the end of March and the beginning of April.

Stork

Stork

Stork

Stork