Where to begin with this bird, one of the most popular birds even outside the parts where they actually live. They live in Europe and go to Africa in the winter. They have a white/cream colored body with black on the edges of their wings, they also have a characteristic orange cone sticking out of their face which we call a “beak”. From a distance their beak really looks like a carrot. They also have some nice eyeliner, and they are overall very elegant birds.
They live primarily around grasslands considering they go in high grass to eat frogs and other bugs and critters that are found there. I see them often, I live in a rather rural area, usually standing in some farmland or on a streetlight near some farmland. I also see them on the stork nest plateaus we have in the Netherlands; little platforms in the air storks can built their nest in.
Speaking of their nests, sometimes they get roommates. Sparrows and starlings built their nest around or inside the stork’s nest which is just an adorable thought.
What storks are probably most known for is the fact that they migrate. The reason why we even know birds migrate is because of the stork. Storks go to Africa in the winter, but sometimes some African tribes want to hunt the storks for food. Some storks have been shot by a bow and have taken that arrow all the way back to Europe. When they kicked the bucket in Europe a lot of people were wondering how they had an African arrow in their neck. I saw on Wikipedia that the nazis wanted to make use of their migration in the most ridiculous way possible:
Insane.
Anyway as we all know storks are also responsible for babies. When a mom and a dad love each other very much, they leave treats for storks on their window sill who will drop a baby down their chimney within a couple of weeks. The beauty of life is in the hands (wings) of the stork. What a wonderful bird
