Protectionists have seen white stork as “a symbol for recovery of nature” as they work to re -present the long -missing breeding birds in the UK.
Once a common vision in Britain, staring at roofs, buildings and trees with their large nests, Birds Hunting and housing loss disappeared centuries ago. While migrants still travel from the continent, protectionists say that the lack of existing colonies prevents them from settling for breed.
Since 2016, a renovation project has been going on in Southern England, which aims to establish new colonies using rehabilitated injured storks. The purpose of these colonies is to act as “magnets”, which attracts other wild birds to settle and breed.
The scheme has re -established a wild population of breeding storc and given unexpected benefits to other birds and wildlife, saying the scheme says protectionists.
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Other polish birds, some of which have injuries, which means they can fly at a shorter distance, but cannot migrate or migrate, live in or around the estates in or around the estates, the founder can breed and install and install colonies that will attract other cranes.
In KNEPP, storks are in a scenario, which has been “again” since 2000, former agricultural land has turned into natural processes using animals including longhorn cattle, red and fallow deer and pigs, which helps in creating a mosaic of scrub, disturbed ground and grassland.
There are also areas of Woodland, the river has been restored in more natural state and in a few years, Beaver A small stream has changed in a dragonflies, damphilies and other insects rich in wetlands in a enclosure.
It is difficult to recall the meter-lumb storks that climb through the sky or through the grass, walking through the scrub and meadow, which is punctured by large trees, while the specific bills “claatering” they make echoes through the landscape.
White Stork Project Officer Laura von-Hirsh said they “love it”, where the revolved process has created an abundance and variety of healthy soil and habitat and insect life.
While they are primarily wetland birds, “they love mixed housing, grasslands, woodlands and beautiful large trees to nest, whatever is insect-rich, worm-rich, it’s their point”, he said.
The first girls were born in 2020 in trees nest nest nest, and non-flying storch produced their first youth in the Ground Nests in the Fox-proof enclosure in 2023.
This year Ms. von-Hirsh said that at least six birds born in Kannap have returned after an annual stay in Africa to build a nest in the colony, with one who has set up a house in the same tree as her parents, and stealing nesting material from them.
The team is expecting around 40 fledglings in 2025, including the youth of ground-nesting storc, which are fish hand-feeding pieces to supplement food that can source their parents pen.
Stork’s success in KNEpp shows that “sort the habitat, soil, insects, healthy water systems, and then your storks will eventually come,” he said.
“We all see white stork as a large charismatic species, but it is a symbol for the recovery of nature,” he said.
Each girl requires 35 kg of food, such as cricket or insects, between hatching and escape, their existence in the scenario is an indicator of how healthy the ecosystem is.
And in turn storked’s nests – which can weigh up to a ton – attract an array of insects in trees or even on roofs, while rains, colored doves, house sparrows and, this year, this year, blue breasts have been seen making nests in huge structures.
Isabella Tree, who owns KNEpp with her husband Charlie Burel, stated that her impact on other species was an “unexpected result” of re -production.
“What we are seeing is that even species that do not have a reputation, because having a keystone species affects the ecosystem.
“They are doing extraordinary things that we really never knew.”
And he said: “We think we know what will be the effect of a species on the scenario, but how can we do when our landscape is so fragmented and so low. The only way to find out is to try it.”
This is more important at any time because climate change pushes species to find a new residence to promote a population of birds with large boundaries, she suggests.
He said that the scheme was initially naysayers – which were not included to conservationists who did not think that it should be tried or worked.
But he said: “Full bliss and enthusiasm is that they are flying now Morocco On the stay and back and nesting hunting and with girls and interacting with wild birds and wild birds are brought back with them. ,
He said that Stork is a “totem” for the restoration of wide river catchment and a way to connect people with nature, he said.
“We have so long relationships with these birds, from Egyptians, and ancient Greeks and ancient Islam, these birds have been nurtured, and they are somehow in our DNA.
“We recognize them themselves, they walk like us, they look like brigadors on a parade ground when they are walking in the fields, and when they fly they look like perododectyls,” she said.
Further projects are going on to resume storks in Cornwal and Devon.
And in KNEPP it is expected that birds will spread from property and start nests away from the current colony, increasing the possibility that, at least in some areas, they will become a familiar view again on the sky, trees and roofs.