ciconia

As I mentioned in this post, the white storks (Ciconia ciconia) get special treatment in Turkey.

Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009

It is also essential winter habitat for up to 500,000 overwintering ducks and waterbirds such as teal Anas crecca (160,000), wigeon Anas Penelope (100,000), greylag goose Anser anser (100,000), most of Spain's herons, white stork Ciconia ciconia, stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus and slender-billed gull Larus genei.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

As I mentioned in this post, the white storks Ciconia ciconia get special treatment in Turkey.

More white stork pictures from Turkey AYDIN 2009

The avifauna includes black stork Ciconia nigra, white stork Ciconia ciconia, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, greater spotted eagle A. clanga (VU), white-tailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla, great snipe Gallinaga media, corncrake Crex crex, eagle owl Bubo bubo. great grey owl Strix nebulosa and Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus 2009

Other rare birds that breed here are great bustard (Otis tarda) and white stork (Ciconia ciconia).

Nenjiang River grassland 2008

Migrant marsh harrier Circus cyaneus and reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus are common, also the threatened migrant white stork Ciconia ciconia.

Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

Chobe National Park is one of the main breeding sites for the rare slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula, VU), and the eastern population of the white stork (Ciconia ciconia) uses the Luangwa Valley as its wintering ground.

Zambezian and Mopane woodlands 2008

On the west coast of Turkey he encountered white storks Ciconia ciconia to which he referred as cranes.

Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

The Igneada bottomland forests support a breeding population of Ciconia nigra and a high number of C. ciconia and other migratory raptors.

Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests 2008

Waterbirds using the ecoregion include little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus), white stork (Ciconia ciconia), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), and night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax).

West Saharan montane xeric woodlands 2008