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The Croatian tourism board created an animated video of Klepetan and Malena to promote Croatia. [14] The pair of storks was the subject of a video that led to Lebanon adopting protections for migratory birds. [15] The pair have been described as "Croatia's most unusual love story". [16]
The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), also known as the whale-headed stork, and shoe-billed stork, is a large long-legged wading bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill . It has a somewhat stork -like overall form and has previously been classified with the storks in the order Ciconiiformes based on this morphology.
Yaren is a white stork known for his friendship with a fisherman, Adem Yılmaz, living in Eskikaraağaç village of Bursa, Turkey.. Since 2010, the bird leaves Africa each year during his annual migration, flies back in March to the same fisherman in the village on the shore of Uluabat Lake.
The Fox and the Stork involves a fox who invites a stork for dinner and provides soup in a dish that the stork cannot drink from, and is in turn invited for dinner by the stork and given food in a narrow jug which he cannot access. It cautions readers to follow the principle of do no harm. [55]
The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae.Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa.Once found widely across southern Asia and mainland southeast Asia, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only three breeding populations; two in India, one in the north-eastern state of Assam and a ...
The jabiru (/ ˌ dʒ æ b ɪ ˈ r uː / or / ˈ dʒ æ b ɪ r uː /; Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes.It sometimes wanders into the United States, usually in Texas, but has also been reported in Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The African openbill is a stork measuring 80–94 cm (31–37 in) and weighing 1–1.3 kg (2.2–2.9 lb). [6] The species does not exhibit any major sexual dimorphism, although the males are slightly larger than the females and have a longer and heavier bill. [2]
The marabou stork is a massive bird: large specimens are thought to reach a height of 152 centimetres (5 feet) and a weight of 9 kg (20 lb). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] A wingspan of 3.7 m (12 ft) was accepted by Fisher and Peterson, who ranked the species as having the largest wing-spread of any living bird.