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Storrington in West Sussex named UK’s first European stork village | Birds

The Sixonon knew West Sussex Village in Storington As Estorchestone, “House of Creation”.

But graceful white birds have disappeared from their sky more than 600 years ago, when they became extinct in Britain.

Now, after the success of the successful White Stork, Storrington and Knepp Estate are appointed near the “European Village”.

The award means that societies are now part of European Al -Baqan villages networkPatriot initiative before Euronor The basis for combating habitat for birds.

Together, Storrington and KNEPP are the sixteenth place in Europe that are recognized as a Stork village, and the first in the United Kingdom.

Tricks flourish again on Knepp WildlandThe first major project to restore low lands in England. 53 white meetings fled the records of the wild nests here in 2024, most of them in the tops of old oak trees. Birds line their huge nests with a soft fibrous dung of free dowries in KNEPP.

The white shots reach the stage of maturity in about three years and can live for 20-40 years. Photo: Knepp

The vaccine finds that the previous agricultural lands that were recycled in the Knepp Ideal Habitat, with harsh promoters and wetlands rich in insects and lands that provide a lot of food. Couples are also associated with another location in Wadhurst, East Sussex, often seen as they fly around the region.

The scheme to return the white shots began to Britain in 2016, with White worrying projectCooperating between the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, Cotswold Wildlife Park, Knepp Estate and Wadeurst Park. First, a group of birds from the Warsaw Zoo was introduced to the KNEPP. They were directed in wild birds, and the first free pairs that excel over a chicken in the wild in 2020.

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The colony of expansion migrates to Morocco for the winter months before returning to Sussex to the nest.

More than a thousand KNEPP school children visit each year to learn about the core and re -blasphemy. this year , The web camera follows one of ten ten It was already registered in this breeding season, which is scheduled to be another standard.

Isabella Tree, owner KNEPP “I hope we can get a webcam in hospital waiting rooms, schools, care homes, prisons and train stations this year. It is a kind of calming thing that we should monitor instead of the wall news to the wall.”

The breeding pair of the vaccine can use the same large nest for several years in a row, usually produces four eggs annually. Photo: Knepp

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