A species sporting such a badge (more on its binomial name later) showed up recently in a space considered to be lying outside its known range — a glimpse of the woolly necked stork at the Great ...

A group of Oriental white storks perch on tree branches near the Poyang Lake in Wucheng county in Jiangxi. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On Jan 6, while patrolling the Poyang Lake National ...

Ornithologists tagged 27 juvenile birds to track the way they use updrafts of air heated by the sun to migrate over long distances. The storks travel from Africa to Europe and back again every year, ...

Now, a study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany, has an explanation for how this collective phenomenon forms: the storks are choosing to fly together. With data ...

Thirty-three oriental white storks were recently observed in the reed marshes of Maluan Bay in Xiamen, Fujian province. [Photo by Chen Bo/For chinadaily.com.cn] Thirty-three oriental white storks ...

I write about the world of biology. White storks, typically solitary except during migration, reveal a preference for flying in groups, ... [+] particularly among younger birds, as a recent study ...

SINGAPORE – Mass sightings in Singapore of the Asian openbill stork – a bird typically found foraging in the rice fields of countries in the region such as Thailand – have sparked a buzz ...

In 2019, thousands of Asian Openbill storks were spotted at St John’s Island, located south of the mainland, and in the Changi area of eastern Singapore around noon. Many of were also seen in ...