The storks are set free

One of the wild stork parents.

Wild stork parent grooming itself.

Wild young storks on the nests on the top of the aviary.

The first brave young storks are emerging from the aviary.

Trying out their freedom.

Beautful wing structure on a young stork.

Young stork trying their wings for the first time in the skies.

The dots in the skies are young storks soaring high for the first time in their life.

Some of the wild stork fledglings on the nest joined the others in flight but others didn´t bother. After all they had their freedom all the time.

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Carl von Linné found lots of storks in Scania during his Scanian journey in 1749 but sadly the stork disappeared from Scania and Sweden in 1954. The last storks in Sweden were found by Hemmestorps mill where the 87 young storks bred by the swedish stork project was set free on July 26 2014. Together with the eighty storks that have been born in the wild this year they are expected to fly south in the autumn to Spain, Portugal and Africa. A few years back two storks were fitted with GPS-transmitters. One of the storks travelled east over Turkey all the way to South Africa but on the return journey disappeared in South Sudan. Neither the stork nor the GPS-transmitter has been sighted again. The other stork went to Spain and was found on a dump between Zaragoza and Barcelona. That stork has returned to Sweden and is probably one of the parents of this year.  A map of their travels here (Note that the trip to the United States is the GPS being serviced, not the stork visiting).  More information about the reintroduction of the white stork in Scania can be found here. More critters at Camera Critters and more winged pictures at The BIRD D’Pot.

Stork in flight

 The picture above is of one of the wild storks that has built their nest on top of the aviary cage in Fulltofta. It is on its way to land on the nest. It seems storks like to live in villages so they nest close to each other.  The picture is taken on June 15 2014.

Carl von Linné found lots of storks in Scania during his Scanian journey in 1749 but sadly the stork disappeared from Scania and Sweden in 1954. The stork is seen as the symbolic bird for Scania along with the farm geese. In the middle of the 1900s most wetlands in Scania had been drained and the birds couldn´t find food. But now they have started to restore the wetlands and circa a hundred stork babies are born in the cages this year and circa 70 babies in the wild. More information about the reintroduction of the White stork in Scania can be found here. More winged pictures at The BIRD D’Pot and more critters on Camera Critters.

 

 

I better pretend to be dead

A little baby stork pretending to be dead when ringed by the ringer from the stork project that aims to restork Scania. Carl von Linné found lots of storks in Scania during his Scanian journey in 1749 but sadly the stork disappeared from Scania and Sweden in 1954. The stork is seen as the characteristic bird symbol for Scania along with the farm geese. In the middle of the 1900s most wetlands in Scania had been drained and the birds couldn´t find food. But now they have started to restore the wetlands and circa a hundred stork babies are born in the cages this year and circa 70 babies in the wild. The picture above is of one of the Babies ringed in Fulltofta on June 15 2014. More information about the reintroduction of the White stork in Scania can be found here. More winged pictures at The BIRD D’Pot .