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White Stork

Ciconia ciconia

3,594Records since 2000
MayPeak month
57Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan197
Feb143
Mar224
Apr592
May605
Jun441
Jul457
Aug286
Sep227
Oct155
Nov146
Dec121

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England380
2Kent England260
3Suffolk England78
4Norfolk England72
5Essex England66
6Thurrock England62
7Somerset England42
8Cornwall England30
9Devon England30
10Oxfordshire England26
11Dorset England23
12Cumbria England15
13Surrey England14
14Peterborough England14
15Northamptonshire England12
3,544 England25 Scotland13 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,594
Peak month
May
Counties with records
57
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Ciconia ciconia
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
765
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Bern Convention
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Ciconiiformes
Family
Ciconiidae
Genus
Ciconia
Name with authority
Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25352 · GBIF 2481912