White stork: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the white stork lives – recorded in 61 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Ciconia ciconia
Group	Herons, storks, cranes & flamingos
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	61 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	110 g (birth weight)
Diet (main food)	Reptilia, Amphibia, vole, earthworm, insect, grasshopper, Common frog, edible frog, mole, Soricidae, Gryllidae, locust
Class	Bird
Order	Ciconiiformes
Family	Ciconiidae

Where does the white stork live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the white stork in 61 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a white stork?

Wikidata records the following for the white stork: mass 110 g (birth weight).

What does a white stork eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the white stork as: Reptilia, Amphibia, vole, earthworm, insect, grasshopper, Common frog, edible frog, mole, Soricidae, Gryllidae, locust.

Is the white stork endangered?

The white stork’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the white stork?

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a bird in the order Ciconiiformes and the family Ciconiidae, genus Ciconia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the white stork

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe north to Finland, northwestern Africa, Palearctic east to southern Kazakhstan and southern Africa. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends for soaring do not form over water.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article White stork (revision 1380253532), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q25352 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).