A couple of storks in their nest, yellow ochre sky caused by Saharan dust in Nantes, France

Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos) catches an eel in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India

Adjutant Storks, Nagaon District, Assam, India

Asian Openbill Stork (Ardea oscitans) comes in to land at a wetland near Sylhet, Bangladesh

Asian Openbill Stork with chicks (Anastomus oscitans), Nagaon district, Assam, India

Asian Openbill Storks (Anastomus oscitans) ‘The Sky Keeps Score’ Buriram, Thailand

Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) forages at the Beichuan River Wetland Park in Xining City, Qinghai province, China

Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) forages for food at a wetland in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India

Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus), McArthur River, Northern Territory, Australia

Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus), Nightcliff, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus), Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India

Greater adjutant storks (Leptoptilos dubius) stand at a rubbish dumping site in Guwahati, India

Greater adjutant storks, Assam, India

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Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) Nairobi, Kenya

Migrating storks in the sky over Istanbul, Turkey

Nesting Storks, Ankara, Turkey

Nesting storks, Beauvoir-sur-Mer, France

Oriental Storks (Ciconia boyciana) foraging at a national ocean park in Lianyungang, northeastern Jiangsu province, China

Oriental Storks (Ciconia boyciana) with chicks in nest on power grid pylon, Jiangsu province, China

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) flies over Coots on the Anasagar Lake, Ajmer, India

Painted Stork, Anasagar Lake, Ajmer, India

Painted Stork, Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, Sultanpur, India

Painted Storks (Mycteria leucocephala), Lake Doddaballapur, Bengaluru, India

Stork at the Protected Animal Rehabilitation Center in Przemysl, south-eastern Poland

Stork feeding babies, Monchique, Portugal

Stork flies off from its nest while the family look on near Frankfurt, Germany

Stork flies over a field near Frankfurt, Germany

Stork flies to its nest in the cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Sardão, Portugal

Stork perched high in a nest above horses in a meadow in Wehrheim, Germany

Stork stands in its nest in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany

Stork, Hessian Ried, Biebesheim, Germany

Stork, Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Stork, Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany

Storks nest, Lipu Stork Reserve, Racconigi, near Cuneo, Italy

Storks perch near the Hamzabey dam in Bursa, Turkey

Storks stand at their nests in ‘stork valley‘ in the Beyşehir district of Konya, Turkey

Storks stand in their nest at Yesildag town in Konya, Turkey

Storks stand in their nest in Kizilcahamam, Ankara Province, Turkey

Storks stand in their nest under a red sky at sunrise in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany

Storks stand on their nests on the roof of the Colegiata de San Miguel in Alfaro, Spain

Two storks stand atop their nest built on an electrical pole, in Turkey

Wet Storks, Hessian Ried, Biebesheim am Rhein, Germany

White Stork with babies, Santok, Poland

White Stork, Obilic, Kosovo

Wood Stork, Florida Everglades

Young storks in their nests at the ‘valley of storks’ in the Beysehir district of Konya, Turkey