Species group · Birds

Storks

WAnimals has 4 species of stork, in the family Ciconiidae.

4 species

1 family

111 countries

146 parks

Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 4.

All 4 species of storks on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

2 Least Concern1 Near Threatened1 Endangered

1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.

Recorded in 111 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

Unlike the white stork it avoids towns, preferring quiet woodland beside rivers, and is far shyer and harder to see.
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Unlike the white stork, it avoids people altogether and seeks out the most isolated corners in which to breed.
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On migration between Europe and Africa it avoids long sea crossings and skirts the Mediterranean by way of Gibraltar, Sicily or the Levant.
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It builds some of the largest nests of any bird, reused year after year.
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It is the star of the European tale that has storks delivering babies.
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It winters in sub-Saharan Africa.
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It hunts by touch, not by sight: it puts its half-open bill into the murky water and sweeps it from side to side until it brushes a fish, a technique known as tactolocation.
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As it wades it waggles one foot back and forth and suddenly opens the wing on that same side to flush hidden fish.