| 41. | A young white stork ringed at the nest in Denmark subsequently appeared in England, where it spent some days before moving on.
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| 42. | The first and most famous " " was a white stork found in 1822 near the German village of, in the state of.
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| 43. | Before migration was understood, people had no other explanation for the sudden annual disappearance of birds like the white stork and barn swallow.
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| 44. | White storks no longer nest in many countries, and the current strongholds of the western population are in Portugal, Spain, Ukraine and Poland.
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| 45. | Juvenile white storks were shown to host less species, but the intensity of infection was higher in the juveniles than in the adult storks.
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| 46. | "It's quite rare to see a lone white stork in this country _ there are only about 10 to a dozen sightings a year,"
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| 47. | The oldest known wild white stork lived for 39 years after being ringed in Switzerland, while captive birds have lived for more than 35 years.
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| 48. | The white stork has also been noted for tool use by squeezing moss in the beak to drip water into the mouths of its chicks.
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| 49. | There is a small zoo with some major domestic birds and it is one of the few places in Belgium with a population of white storks.
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| 50. | "Didn't you know this is the ` White Stork'hotel ? " said an American woman with a Snugli around her shoulders filled with an infant girl.
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