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Ciconia ciconia | White Stork

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A little graphite sketch of a white stork that I did while waiting for my tea :)

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White Stork

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White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)

© Kevin Hughes

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Hausstorch, Ciconia alba | Die Vogel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

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It’s time to fly

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White Stork - Memphis Zoo, Prentiss Place, Memphis, TN, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Scientific name: Ciconia ciconia

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing)

Mass: 7.4 lbs (Adult) 

Family: Ciconiidae

Class: Aves

Kingdom: Animalia

Order: Ciconiiformes

The white stork is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm wingspan.

White storks prefer a habitat with low or shallow standing water, such as ponds or permanent pools, surrounded by tall trees to nest. They will hunt for food in wetlands, meadows and farmlands, though they tend to avoid areas with extremely tall grass or shrubs.

White storks breed throughout Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia, and migrate south into sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia for the winter. They arrive on their southern wintering grounds by October, traveling in large flocks that may number in the thousands.

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Lets Dance - White Storks by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: These White Storks were trying to assert their dominance in the colony as they returned to their nesting grounds in Silves Portugal. White storks are gregarious and non-territorial birds. They typically gather into loosely structured groups. During the breeding season, they nest in small colonies, constructing the nests far from each other. Non-breeding birds form groups of 40-50 individuals. - Ciconia ciconia

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Examples of same-sex pairs successfully raising young have been documented in at least 20 species, and in a few cases, homosexual couples actually appear to have an advantage over heterosexual ones.¹³

13. In some bird species in which same-sex pairs are unable to obtain fertile eggs on their own (or in which homosexual parenting has yet to be observed in the wild), parenting skills have been demonstrated by supplying homosexual pairs with "foster" eggs or young in captivity. Same-sex pairs of Flamingos, White Storks, Black-headed Gulls, Steller's Sea Eagles, Barn Owls, and Gentoo Penguins, for example, have all successfully hatched such eggs and/or raised foster chicks.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

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White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)

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Anxiety, emailing, and storks

This week, I've been making steps towards prospecting again. Since I don't have a website available anymore (can't pay for now), I made my portfolios readable online. Now I have to send them to people. Thus, I made a Google Sheets document to organize and see when I contacted and when I need to recontact someone with the help of a friend.

So why am I talking about this if I have everything in my hand to promote my work via e-mails again ?

Well I don't.

Ever been stuck on a task because of fear and anxiety ? Panicked because you're tired of trying but still have to do it ? Yeah... That's me. My anxiety is related to the working world and my depression is triggered by my desperate attempts at surviving through this capitalistic nightmare.

What do you do when that happen ?

I honestly don't know. I don't like to force myself, my instincts tells me it's like running full speed at the danger. I guess I should fight this feeling and keep trying... It's not like I'm gonna die, I'm just gonna cry a lot, feel tight in my chest and sleep a lot for a few days...

I think writing about it here is better than nothing. At least some people can relate to it. I offer no solutions, sorry. After all, it is a blog I made for sharing stuff I did and yap about my life.

I'll update you people if I did it, for the moment, I'll keep searching for more people to contact, postpone an e-mailing attempt to tomorrow and share my Ko-fi.

If you want to help me make more pictures, you can send me a tip on my KO-FI.

Anyways, here's a few photos I took this year of the nearest white storks (Ciconia ciconia) nest.

Right now, the babies are grown enough to fly by themselves for the migration but during spring and summer, you could hear them clatter when a mate came back from foraging. I even took a video of them taking care of their babies.

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Natuur en landbouw. by Wim Jacobs Via Flickr: Rondje Montort met de fiets.

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White Stork

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Docm77: grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus)

Renthedog: white stork (Ciconia ciconia)

Finally started a project I thought about for ages - drawing MCYT in traditional Ukrainian clothes!

Beginning with Doc and Ren; there will be more to come later because I want to draw as many people as I can hehe :3c