Stork
"The "white stork" in
Egypt is called the goat.Due to its large size, it is one of the large
migratory birds with long legs that sees its nests above minarets, electric
line towers, and tall tree tops.
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Reason for naming it by this name:
The stork was called the Sad King
because of its always sad nature.This bird is considered king because it stays
in the swamps and does not leave them until they become dry.It is also called
the Sad because it is very sad and lowers its head to express its sadness Exactly as a person does, and the reason for
sadness is the drying up of the lakes and swamps in which he stays for his
time.
A large migratory bird with long legs whose nests are seen above minarets, electric line towers, and the tops of tall trees.
Food :
They feed on insects, tadpoles, snake
chicks, and mice
Which
animal is called stork?
Characteristics of the stork :
Storks are distinguished by their
long legs and long neck, and their beak is long.The plumage colors of storks
vary according to their type, as some species have a filamentous sac, which is
a large flap of skin on the neck، These
birds grow to be very large and some species have huge wings.
These birds have a long, thick, and
sharply pointed beak.Their heads are devoid of feathers and their head is
black.Their necks are light red.Storks live in wetlands, grasslands, swamps,
and lakes، And
streams and estuaries, and the preference for places among these birds varies
according to their species.
The stork is found all over the world
except in polar places.It is found in Central America, North America, Eurasia,
Africa, and Australia، Storks
are considered carnivores, meaning they rely heavily on meat in their diet,
such as eating fish, small mammals, invertebrates, insects, reptiles, and
amphibians.
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Classification:
The stork is classified as a large,
long-necked bird.It belongs to the same family as the heron and flamingo.The
length of the stork is about 60-150 cm، Part of the stork's head, or all of its
head, is bare of feathers, along with the neck as well, and the color of the
feathers is bright.
His
voices:
The stork does not make sounds or has a very low voice because it does not have a complete syrinx and the syrinx is the organ responsible for making the sound.The stork flies and rises gradually over high distances، He extends his neck and legs during flight.
Place of living:
Storks live together in groups and
herds all the time except during the breeding and mating season, and females
lay approximately 3-6 eggs that are incubated by the parents and hatch after
about 5 weeks، There
are many species belonging to the stork distributed around the world and differ
in several characteristics.
Information and facts about the
stork.Below are the most prominent information and facts about the stork:
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Types of stork:
There are more than 19 species of
storks around the world, differing from each other in sizes and colors and
living in most regions of the world.
Storks feed on a wide range of foods, including meat, vegetables, and
herbs. Some species of storks have long,
massive wings, and the wings of the stork can cover the black rhinoceros. Storks do not make sounds from their syrinx,
as it is not fully developed, but it makes sounds such as grunt, hissing, and
rattling. The European white stork
travels approximately 19,312 km during its migration, in order to reach warmer
environments such as sub-Saharan Africa, which means that it remains in the air
for approximately 49 days. Storks build
large nests and use them for several years to reproduce, only to return from
their migration, add some nests to them, and lay their eggs inside them
again. The male stork cooperates with
the female in parenting responsibilities, sharing time sitting on eggs to keep
them warm, and spending weeks of effort bringing food for the young to grow.
What
is another name for a stork?
Specialists follow him to study the
movement of his flight and travel by monitoring him and placing metal rings
under his leg containing special information that they exchange to help them
study his conditions.
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Information about the white stork:
Its weight ranges from 3 to 4 kilograms.
Its length reaches
approximately one meter, and its legs are long.
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The color of the feathers of its wings is white, and the end of the tips of its wings is black, while its beak is red in color and it is a strong bird.
This bird does not pass through the Mediterranean Sea during its migration journey from Europe, because it needs thermal currents that do not form through the sea.
While moving on land, he walks slowly, and his squadrons are usually spotted in Egypt during the months of August and September.
The
journey lasts about 50 days, and its squadrons include about 10,000 birds in
each squadron .
Some areas have their own stations, as Ras Muhammad Reserve is one of the most important of these stations, because it feeds on small crabs found in mangroves
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Followed by specialists
To study the movement of his flight
and travel by monitoring him and placing metal rings around the bottom of his
leg containing special information that they exchange to help them study his
conditions.
The public rejoices in it and preserves its nests, so they do not destroy them, Maintenance engineers may suffer when their workers and technicians are assigned to remove their nests from electrical lines, which often cause short circuit circuits, especially in the winter when the branches and straw of the nest become wet, You see them not raising it, but rather rearranging it and keeping it slightly away from the electrical wires.
Its food:
Although these birds depend for their
food on the frogs, molluscs, and crustaceans found in the lakes, the bird we
are talking about surprised scientists ؛ Because it quickly shoots
towards any burning area in meadows and forests, and after long observation, it
turns out that the fire forces the insects to quickly escape or jump into the
air, at which point this bird takes off؛ In order to obtain a delicious meal
from these easy and delicious insects, through his amazing sense of the
existence of a relationship between fire and abundant food, he sings of a long
search in meadows or lakes, for frogs and other aquatic creatures.
Although this species is widespread
in most parts of the world, this beautiful bird is threatened with extinction
in many places.
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Stork migration and its features:
Expert Bals Molina from the Spanish
Ornithological Society reported that large numbers of storks stopped migrating
due to the rising temperature of the universe.
Molina explained that the long-legged, long-necked, and beaked white
stork is one of the birds that the Spaniards love, and its numbers in its most
recent census, which was in 2004, reached 33 thousand pairs. The stork is a beautiful bird that has
wonderful eyes that help it see excellently during flight.It also has a long,
receptive beak with which it can easily catch fish, frogs, and some
insects, When a stork flies, it can
distinguish its destination and can sense the direction that the Creator -
Glory be to Him - has provided it with, to travel to the place it wants without
getting lost.
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The most famous factions
The most famous stork is the white
stork. This bird lives in Asia, North
Africa, and Europe in the summer, and in Africa and northern India in the
winter. It is white with black markings
on its wings. It has a red beak, and its
legs and feet are reddish-cornish in color.
The white stork often harbors surfaces and chimneys. The stork pair returns to the same nest year
after year. The white stork is a bird
that finds care and protection in many places.
It is reprehensible flying that some people in some countries believe
that this bird brings good luck.
Other Eastern European storks include
the Abba Saan, the black stork, and the woolly-necked stork. The Maggiore stork and the Jabiru stork live
in Central America and South America.
The jabiro grows to a height of 1.5 m and its wing length exceeds two
metres.
The forest stork, formerly called the forest ibis, lives in the cypress swamps of Florida, United States, and also lives in coastal areas of Central and South America. The height of this large white bird is slightly more than a meter. The black color prevails on both sides of its lower wings and on the tail feathers.
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