Showing posts with label Ciconia nigra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ciconia nigra. Show all posts

Thursday, March 16, 2017

BLACK STORK

Photographed at Beeshazar Wetlands, Nepal, March 2017
(*   258)                BLACK STORK                   Ciconia nigra

NEPAL            114

Found in marshes, rivers and cut-over paddy fields. 90-100 cm. Widespread winter visitor and passage migrant.



(juvenile)

Monday, October 13, 2014

BLACK STORK


258            BLACK STORK         Ciconia nigra

South Africa       (20)

95-110 cm, 2.5-3.2 kg; Ranges over most of South Africa. Uncommon and decreasing at lakes, rivers ad estuaries; population around 1,000 pairs. Breeds singly on cliff edges, reusing same site for years.