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White storks - well known and much loved
thousand pairs
of white storks live in Poland
It's about
20%
of the world's population
Migration
Storks (left) spend about five months out of the year in Poland. In August, their migration begins. Before flying south, storks congregate in large flocks (known as sejmiki-or caucuses), which gather all the birds from an area. The caucus locations are chosen instinctively by the flocks.
Leaving Poland, the majestic birds fly south-east, crossing the Bosphorus, the Middle East, the Sinai Peninsula en-route to Eastern and Southern Africa. Their destinations include Sudan, Chad, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa •
Storks cover
6--
- thousand km
during their migration.
In favorable conditions storks can fly up to
250
km a day