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Copyright: Lucas Aguilar (laguilar)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-09-17 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Olympus Camedia C-765 UZ |
| Exposure: f/3.5, 1/800 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-10-13 4:14 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Spanish] |
BLACK STORK
Class: Birds
Order: Ciconiformes
Family: Cicónidos
Length: 95-100 cm
Wingspan: 185-205 cm
Distribution: Southwest of Spain and East of Europe
Habitat: old Forests, marshes and humid meadows
Nourishment: Carnivorous
Putting: 2-5 eggs
Description:
The black adult storks show a totally black plumage with the abdomen and the rectrices of white feathers and with greenish reflexes and purples in the feathers of the neck and of the breast, which contrast with the red vivacious color of his beak and pastas. Brown eyes surrounded with a great red ring. The young men are mas dun and with fewer reflexes. Legs and beak of greenish color.
Nourishment:
It feeds of fish, amphibians and insects in shallow waters, in marshes and in humid meadows. Also of small mammals as topillos and mice.
Reproduction:
It prefers constructing nest in the trees of forests, the nest is of branches, big and can be used several years. Put from 2 to 5 eggs, targets and can get dark to the ensuciarse during the incubation. The incubation lasts from 30 to 35 days and is effected by both sexes. The chickens are nidícolas with white down and yellow beak.
Customs and social life:
The voice is more sonorous than that of the common stork with notes like soft blows, hisses, etc. Also crotorea but with fewer frequency. It does not frequent human agglomerations, prefers zones of wooded saw with peñascales, removed from the influence of the man, especially for nidificar and almost always near masses of sweet water. It is more solitary than another stork and produces almost always in solitary couples though they can meet in small decrees to rest. Agile flight, it glides and ascends frequently, especially in migration.
State of conservation:
It is a bird catalogued in danger owed especially to the inconveniences caused in his baby's areas, and to the falls caused to his populations by shocks of individuals with electrical wires, expolios of nests, indiscriminate use of pesticides in surroundings of humid zones etc.
From the zoo of Jerez de la Frontera. |
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