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White Stork
Witooievaar · Ciconia ciconia
A large white stork with black flight feathers and a red bill and legs. It is a summer visitor that migrates from Europe and Asia, crossing the Sahara to reach southern Africa. Flocks stride across grassland eating locusts, frogs and mice, then head north again before winter.
Log your White Stork sighting — free →How to identify it
Mostly white with black wing feathers and a straight red bill and red legs, bigger and cleaner-white than the Yellow-billed Stork.
Where to see it in Kruger
Visits open grassland and recently burnt areas in summer, often in scattered flocks hunting insects.
Did you know
Many of these storks fly all the way from Europe to spend the summer in South Africa, thousands of kilometres each way!
Often confused with
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