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white stork

noun

  1. a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of white stork1

First recorded in 1785–95
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You know, Kevin, when I was growing up, a white stork was a symbol of someone bringing a baby to your front doorstep.

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With long legs and large wings, the white stork is a prominent star of the pageant that is animal migration.

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A poor fisherman in a Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he found that a white stork had alighted on his boat.

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In today’s news roundup, Ex-President Barack Obama delivers two graduation speeches, several women over the age of 100 recover from the coronavirus, and the United Kingdom gets its first white stork chicks in 600 years.

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Hundreds of white storks have built nests up to six feet long on roofs and in the bell tower of the nearby church.

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