He has also acted as a foster parent to various animals, including a juvenile stork that was taken from its nest and later abandoned. |
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In winter, it's easy to see raptors, Oriental white stork, and white spoonbills. |
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The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands. |
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Above, a white stork stands surrounded by boat-tailed grackles in Lion Country Safari, a bird sanctuary in Palm Beach, Florida. |
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In the marshes, keep an eye out for the papyrus gonolek and the often sought-after shoebill stork. |
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She hissed, spat and arched her back, and the hyenas kept their distance, though they did manage to grab the stork. |
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The man turned himself in to police in Buritam Province as they searched for him on suspicion he had killed a greater adjutant stork last week. |
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There was blossom on the trees, birds were singing and a stork was nesting in the neck of a rusting water tower on an abandoned farm. |
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He called for the creation of a nature reserve to protect the forest and save the black stork. |
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Proponents claimed that the improved stork habitat would benefit the kites as well, which also frequented that area. |
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The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen. |
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It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies. |
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Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different. |
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The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson. |
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A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby. |
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It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss. |
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That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes. |
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The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen. |
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This stork is quite common in shallow waters and swampy areas. |
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A stork had bird watchers in a flap when it flew away from a stately home. |
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More than 200 species of birds are also found here, including the rare Storm's stork and the oriental darter, kingfishers and raptors such as the crested serpent eagle. |
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The stork had just procreated and was spreading its wings over the helpless little creatures in the nest to protect them from the scorching late-June sun. |
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I love the way he jogs through the snow under indictment, like a stork in spandex trying to gallop. |
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Australia's only stork, the jabiru stands about a metre and a half tall. |
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Here's some advice to prepare you for that moment so that you don't come up short and find yourself talking about the stork. |
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But the researchers involved are quite hopeful that the simple netting technique will be a first step toward increasing the overall numbers of the greater adjutant stork. |
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We saw hippo and elephant but for me highlights were a rare slaty egret, an in-your-face look at a marabou stork standing over a single egg on its head-high nest. |
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He looks like a stork that dropped a baby and broke it and is coming to explain to the parents. |
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Three ecosystems enabled me to observe rare species of bird of which the milky stork, monkeys, crabs, snakes and large lizards, varan. |
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The white stork of Europe and northern Asia is a typical long-distance migrant, travelling as far as South Africa and India. |
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The bird, actually a white stork, was found with a mysterious electronic device attached, hence the belief that it was up to no good. |
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Whatever the reason the white stork is an increasingly common sight in Mediterranean wetlands during the winter. |
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This helped reintroduce the once critically endangered oriental white stork, today an important attraction for tourists. |
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The Big Bird of the Pantanal is the jabiru stork, as tall as a Mini, which stood decorously by ponds before skewering unfortunate fish. |
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Among birds include partridge, stork, golden eagle, kestrel, peregrine falcon, wood pigeon and owl. |
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It was made of aluminium tubing, Mylar and piano wire, with a weird horizontal stabiliser poking from the front like the head of a stork. |
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A placard shows a stork delivering a baby that is then driven off in a car. |
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Among the native birds, the whidah, weaverbirds, pigeon, sunbird, cuckoo, swift, heron, stork, pelican, and cormorant are some, which you would come across. |
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Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering. |
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These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests. |
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Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas. |
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I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house. |
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As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies. |
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The national plant is rue, and the national bird is the stork. |
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In the Lochinvar, regarded as Zambia's prime birds sanctuary, there is the crested cranes, saddle-bill storks, egrets, wood ibis, vultures and the rare shoebill stork. |
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Volunteers at Marbury Country Park, near Northwich, spotted three booming bitterns, members of the heron and stork family, feeding among reedbeds. |
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Three impoundments are stocked with bluegill sunfish and brown bullhead and partially drained to an appropriate depth for stork foraging during the late summer months. |
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For years this shy, lanky stork suffered under the pressure of his family. He preferred to stay at home in the nest instead of going hunting for toads with the other storks. |
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Reserves were created to save critical habitat for endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, saiga antelope, Russian desman and black stork. |
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Though chicken was the meat of choice, mainstay potages were studded with beef, pork, swan, stork, peacock, crane, and even whale. |
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As the jewel in the crown of the Lithuanian ecosystem, the stork enjoys the marshland and the 3000 lakes and 700 waterways of this Baltic Republic. |
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It is home to a number of threatened species such as the Little tern, the Black stork, otters and sturgeons, as well as an important stop-off for more than 250,000 waterfowl every year. |
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In parts of Europe, as an alternative to buildings, the white stork often uses artificial platforms erected for its benefit, commonly a cartwheel lying horizontally on top of a high pole, or a similar structure. |
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Most important among the earliest styles was the mitsu-gusoku, an arrangement of three or five articles often consisting of an incense burner, a candlestick in the form of a stork, and a vase of flowers. |
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The tea towel design features a rocking horse, pram, stork, teddy bear and bunting. |
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One of its lecterns is a stork with wings arched and neck outstretched. |
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Among the wildlife highlights the white stork, which become important additions related to the consumption of grasshoppers, with the red kite, marsh harrier and several types of eagle. |
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She had a couple of little stork bites that they often have when they are born, but then this red dot appeared just above her ear. |
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The wild animal shelter also is responsible for performing the tasks of a governmentally recognized, central stork rehabilitation sanctuary for the German state of Lower Saxony. |
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The Pomurje region in the north east is the land of the white stork, which nests on chimneys and telephone poles across the Pannonian Plain, and along the Mura River. |
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There are numerous bird species, including openbill, saddlebill, wattled crane, crested crane, jucana, cormorant, Ross's lourie, Boehm's bee eater, black barbed barbet, fish eagle, marabou stork, and vulture. |
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Birds nesting here include the white stork, white-tailed eagle, osprey, hoopoe, corn crake, lesser spotted eagle, eagle owl, mute swan, grey heron, cormorant, crane, and many other species. |
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Birds include the vulture, eagle, stork, bustard, Arabian partridge, bee eater, falcon, and sunbird. |
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In Baby Blimp you are the stork manager, responsible for the baby production line as well as the baby distribution above several towns and cities. |
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This is the country in Europe with the highest density of stork pairs. |
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Baby Smurf was brought into Smurf Village by a stork. |
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The hay was stacked in the rich low meadows, where the stork marched about on his long red legs, chattering in Egyptian, the language his mother had taught him. |
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They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. |
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It sometimes soars, circling to considerable heights, but not as often as the stork. |
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The stork is a main feature of Alsace and was the subject of many legends told to children. |
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The region in and around Bankura is regarded as a haven for the Lesser Adjutant Stork, which is a rare species of the stork family. |
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The black-necked stork, or jabiru, is a bird normally found in coastal wetlands. |
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No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms. |
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It is either a stork or a heron and looks similar to the 41in tall Minton's Majolica stick or umbrella stand modelled by John Henk or Paul Comolera. |
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The lake supports threatened species of birds like spot billed pelican, lesser adjutant stork, greater adjutant stork, black necked stork and large whistling teal. |
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The Cathartidae are sometimes placed separately in an enlarged stork family, Ciconiiformes, and may be raised to an order of their own, Cathartiiformes. |
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Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. |
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I would hope that accidentals like the Black-necked Stork and Yellow-fronted Canary are safe regardless of existing legislation. |
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Delaval Stork stated this flow should be uncompensated, representing the actual volume flow for compressor anti-surge control. |
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The photo passes tests of symmetry that the painted chandelier fails, Stork says. |
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Stork notes that pinpricks show that Jan van Eyck's 1432 portrait of Cardinal Albergati was magnified mechanically, with a proportional compass. |
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Yet Stork determined the probable focal length of a concave mirror made by inverting and silvering the convex mirror shown in the painting. |
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The ravers never showed at Odd Stork, which was probably just as well. |
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On first inspection, The Stork looks like the instrument used for cervical smears, which isn't very appealing. |
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The French and Italians called the constellation la Grue and in England it had the popular names Flamingo and Stork. |
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The Stork Prints DSI UV inkjet label printer is the modular concept for short and medium run digital label printing. |
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Stork bites are small, pink and spidery and appear on the back of the neck, the upper eyelids or the nose. |
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Efforts are being made by the local population to protect the endangered Greater Adjutant Stork birds as they are presumed to be on the verge of extinction. |
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