Herodiones 



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Family OICONIID-^, or Storks 



The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a rare straggler 

 to Britain, but is too familiar a bird to be omitted 

 here. It is common, and for the most part protected, 

 from Sweden, Holland, and central Europe to Turkey 



White Storks 



and Greece, as well as in Spain ; in north Africa it 

 is abundant ; in Asia it ranges eastwards to the central 

 portions and thereafter meets the Japanese species, 

 while it has bred in Ceylon. It is a reaUy white Stork, 

 only the wing-feathers being black, and the bill and legs 

 red. Instead of using their voice Storks clatter their 

 bills loudly ; their flight is very strong, and on migration 



