BLACK STORK

Habitat

It breeds in leafy coniferous or mixed forests, remote places in the mountains on rocks or in large trees, always in areas close to bodies of water such as rivers, lakes or ponds. It winters in Africa. Few specimens are observed in our area during migratory passages, somewhat more numerous during the postnuptial passage.

Description

Slightly smaller in size, although similar in shape (long legs, neck and beak) to its relative the white stork, it differs by having a black head, chest and back with metallic iridescences, while the underparts are white. It has red legs as well as the beak, a tone that also extends around the eye. Like the white stork flies with its neck and legs outstretched, it also uses thermal currents to move. Shy and elusive.