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Where does the White Stork live?

Ciconia ciconia has 1,894,326 records in 140 countries and territories, from 1575 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

White Stork
White Stork — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCiconiiformesCiconiidaeCiconia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 559,077
Spain 336,518
France 164,347
Germany 161,129
Portugal 143,519
Poland 84,570
Sweden 54,624
Belgium 46,968
Bulgaria 32,224
South Africa 30,247
Türkiye 29,968
Israel 29,650
Denmark 24,859
Estonia 18,775
Russia 14,507
Morocco 14,054
Czechia 11,999
Ukraine 11,366
Switzerland 11,298
Austria 10,228
Greece 10,135
Hungary 9,644
Romania 8,567
Italy 7,485
Lithuania 5,043
Serbia 4,286
Tanzania 4,201
United Kingdom 3,973
Belarus 3,955
Croatia 3,807
Kenya 3,331
Slovakia 3,044
India 2,484
Latvia 2,455
Georgia 2,411
Egypt 2,211
Norway 2,096
Slovenia 2,019
Palestine 1,922
Algeria 1,729

Showing the top 40 of 140 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.