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	sociology - Stork
		Storks lack a pharynx and are mute; bill-clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest.
		The Hebrew word for stork was equivalent to "kind mother", and the care of storks for their young, in their highly visible nests, made the stork a widespread emblem of parental care.
		In Bulgarian folklore, the stork is a symbol of the coming spring (as this is the time when the birds return to nest in Bulgaria after their winter migration) and in certain regions it plays a central role in the custom Martenitsa, denoting it is time to take away the token, because spring has come.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Stork (951 words)

	Stork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Storks are heavy with wide wingspans, and the Marabou Stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10.5 feet), shares the distinction of "longest wingspan of any land bird" with the Andean Condor.
		The white stork is the symbol of The Hague in the Netherlands; the national bird of Denmark; and the unofficial symbol of Poland, where about 25 percent of European storks breed.
		In Bulgarian folklore, the stork is a symbol of the coming spring (as this is the time when the birds return to nest in Bulgaria after their winter migration) and in certain regions it plays a central role in the custom Martenitsa, denoting it is time to take away the token, because spring has come.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stork (950 words)

	Painted Stork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Painted Stork, Mycteria leucocephala, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.
		The Painted Stork walks slowly and steadily in shallow waters or adjacent wet grassland seeking its prey, which, like that of most of its relatives, includes fish, frogs and large insects.
		The Painted Stork nests colonially and famous nesting colonies include the ones in the New Delhi Zoological Garden and Kokrebellur in southern India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Painted_Stork (263 words)

	Storks
		Storks have no syrinx and are mute, giving no bird call; bill-clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest.
		Storks are heavy with wide wingspans, and the Marabou Stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10.5 feet), shares the distinction of "longest wingspan of any land bird" with the Andean Condor.
		The white stork is the symbol of The Hague in the Netherlands and the unofficial symbol of Poland, where about 25 percent of European storks breed.
	www.avianweb.com /storks.html (1124 words)

	Stork
		The storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long stout bills.
		They tend to live in drier habitats than their relatives the herons, spoonbills and Ibises, and lack the powder down that those groups use to clean off fish slime.
		The stork is the symbol of Den Haag.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stork.html (108 words)

	Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)
		When the storks are young, they are able to make a loud call to attract the attention of their parents, but by the time they are 18 months old they are practically voiceless, just like the adult storks.
		The young storks are brownish in color when they hatch, and don't grow in their full adult feathers, or plumage, until they are 3 years old.
		Communication when young is a loud raucous call; after 18 months old, the storks communicate mainly by clattering their large bills or hissing, or by visual "displays" such as bowing to each other or spreading their large wings.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Painted_Stork.asp (545 words)

	Summary of Errors in the Data in
		Stork's conclusion that there is a single light source is based on the positions of only five pieces of data, of which he has incorrectly positioned two at locations that support his conclusion.
		Stork claims in this paper that instead the enlargement was made via a graphical method, with the offsets of the regions due to the artist miscounting the grids on his graph paper.
		Stork shows a detail of a distorted octagonal pattern from a photograph of an actual carpet and argues that this distortion indicates the features in the painting are simply due to manufacturing defects in the carpet that Lotto used for his subject.
	www.optics.arizona.edu /SSD/StorkErrorsSummary.htm (2090 words)

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		Storks utilize many different feeding sites during the course of a nesting season and to nest successfully, they may be required to nest in regions where the number of feeding site options are high.
		Storks that nest in southern Florida in winter and spring abandon the nesting region in early summer at the initiation of the rainy season, and return to south Florida during the late fall after the rains end (14).
		Storks that nest in the south are known to disperse to north Florida and along the coastal plain in Georgia and South Carolina (17).
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e104005.htm (5951 words)

	Painted Storks photo - Doug J photos at pbase.com
		The Painted Stork is a broad winged soaring bird.
		Young birds are a duller version of the adult (see the photo of the juvenille painted stork), generally browner and lacking the bright colours of the adult.
		The Painted Stork walks slowly and steadily on the ground in open plains seeking its prey, which like that of most of its relatives, consists of fish, frogs and large insects.
	www.pbase.com /image/17076718 (184 words)

	Wildlife Trust of India - India's Premier Animal Welfare Organisation. Wildlife Conservation\|Animal Rescue ...
		VEERAPURA, November 6, 2002: Eighteen painted stork chicks have been rehabilitated near Bangalore after a flash storm swept their nests away in May. The last bird joined its brethren in the wild in October ending a precedent setting rescue operation that was supported by the Wildlife Trust of India.
		Painted storks (Mycteria leucocephala) nest in large numbers at Veerapura, a village in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh which is close to the inter-state border with Karnataka.
		This breeding colony at Veerapura is the largest known congregation of painted storks in Asia.
	www.wildlifetrustofindia.org /html/news/2002/021106_sarus.htm (669 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		Of all residents, the Asian Openbill and the Painted Storks have had the largest and almost an all-India presence.
		The largest of all storks in India and a resident too is the fl-necked.
		That the storks are being pushed into oblivion primarily by the drastic loss of their habitats is an incontrovertible fact.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050724/spectrum/nature.htm (679 words)

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		The painted stork is pink in his nuptial plumage.
		In the myth of the moon-bird, storks impregnate women.
		In the mating season, two species are migratory: the fl stork who roosts in platforms in the forests of Poland; the familiar white stork ("good luck" in Western Europe).
	www.usd.edu /~tgannon/txts/voigtstork.txt (199 words)

	Stork \| Storks, Stork Signs, Stork info and facts about Storks
		Storks are large, wading birds with long stout bills, belonging to the family Ciconiidae.
		Storks are large Birds, the larger of them being almost 6 feet in length and the Storks nest is even larger Storks were once thought to be monogamous, but this is only true to a limited extent.
		The word "STORK" was derived from and old English word STORC which means stiff or rigid.The Hebrew word for stork is equivalent to "kind mother", and they are also a symbol of parental care.
	www.storkdelivery.com /stork/storks.htm (440 words)

	Painted Stork
		The painted stork, also known as the janghil or dokh, is very good at adapting to its natural environment.
		Painted storks search for fish in shallow waters.
		While young storks are able to call loudly, by 18 months they become practically voiceless.
	www.switcheroozoo.com /profiles/paintedstork.htm (115 words)

	Teacups
		Fox invites Miss Stork to dinner and serves clear soup in dishes so shallow that the stork, with her long beak, is unable to sip even a drop.
		The stork, which has the legendary reputation in Europe as the bringer of babies and symbol of good luck, fits the role of the innocent victim of the fox's wiles who behaves with intelligence to teach the fox a lesson.
		Caron was born in St Cloud, outside of Paris, and was associated with the Sevres manufactory from 1792 to 1815 as a specialist in animal painting.
	www.strinz.com /family/cups.htm (1606 words)

	Storks
		The storks are a fairly small family of large waders found locally in the tropics of the world.
		Recent DNA analysis has shown that the storks are a well-defined, monophyletic group, but that their relationships to other waterbird groups is obscure.
		The association of storks and babies was undoubtedly highly propitious for the bird, as people encouraged the birds to nest on their roofs, in the belief that they would bring fertility and prosperity to the house."
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/storks.html (908 words)

	BIRDTRIP Archives -- February 2003, week 4 (#2)
		We saw some amazing birds, such as nesting Greater Adjutant Storks, Painted Storks and Spot-billed Pelicans (they nest in mixed colonies in trees), the Oriental Darter, and the Stork-billed Kingfisher among others; to me, a birder, it was worth the trip.
		So, at the Center itself, we saw the: Painted Storks Mycteria leucocephala Greater Adjutant Storks Leptoptilos dubius Spot-billed Pelicans Pelecanus philippensis Unlike the two storks, the Spot-billed Pelicans were abundant throughout the sanctuary and on the lake.
		We both, though, were thrilled with the Greater Adjutant Stork and what looks like a bright red mop of hair on top of its head, the Stork-billed Kingfisher, the Brahminy Kite (one of my my favorite bird that I first saw in India in 1996), the Oriental Darter and Green-billed Malkoha were also beautiful birds.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0302d&L=birdtrip&T=0&F=&S=&P=189 (1730 words)

	Painted Stork,Mycteria Leucocephala,Painted Stork In India
		Standing from a distance, heronries of painted storks look like cluttered dirty blobs of white on the tree tops.
		Nests of cormorants, pelicans, egrets, open bill storks, white ibises can also be found on the same tree.
		Titled ‘dokh’ in Hindi, a stork is a massive bird with a yellow, long and heavy bill, slightly de-curved near the tip.
	www.indiasite.com /wildlife/birds/paintedstork.html (254 words)

	Kokkare Bellur,Kokkare bellur bangalore,Kokkare Bellur Karnataka,National Parks of India, Wildlife tours
		The main attraction of Kokkare Bellur is the Painted Stork, which is a familiar sight at marshes and inland waters as it is mainly a fish-eater.
		Both Painted Storks and pelicans are colonial nesters and are known to nest in close proximity.
		These graceful storks tirelessly glide to and fro, sometimes with a sprig of neem leaves in their bills with which to line their nests, most times with juicy tidbits of fish to thrust down the wide open, pulsating and incessantly screeching throats of their fledglings.
	www.indiaprofile.com /wildlife/kokkerabellur.htm (652 words)

	CJOnline.com : In-Depth : Topeka Zoo
		The fugitive stork that fled the Topeka Zoo in October and was recaptured in December has died.
		The Asian painted stork was one of three purchased from the San Diego Zoo for about $1,000 each.
		On October 7, the three storks were released into a yard at the Topeka Zoo when a keeper failed to notice their wings hadn't been clipped to prevent them from flying away.
	www.cjonline.com /indepth/zoo/stories/122101_com_deadstork.shtml (440 words)

	Wetlands
		The main goal of the 2004/2006 Milky Stork Field Surveys in Malaysia, jointly undertaken by Wetlands International and PERHILITAN with support from Malaysian Nature Society volunteers, was to re-assess the status and population size of Milky Stork in Malaysia, and specifically at the Matang Mangrove Forest and adjacent coastal areas in Perak.
		Despite its importance as an alternative site – for Milky Stork roosting, feeding or escaping from disturbance – it would appear that the buffer zone of protected forest around the lake at Pulau Terong may be too limited to provide a safe and undisturbed refuge for long periods of time.
		The main goal of the 2004/2006 Milky Stork Field Surveys in Malaysia was to re-assess the status and population size of the Milky Stork in Malaysia and specifically at the Matang Mangrove Forest and adjacent coastal areas in Perak.
	www.wetlands.org /malaysia/en/articlemenu.aspx?id=311c6b2c-a18a-4b80-9ae2-70053aa2da79 (1931 words)

	Blackbrook Bird Zoo - fact sheet: Painted Stork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Our Painted Storks are very quiet and prefer to spend the day in the pool together.
		Painted Storks immerse their head in the muddy water with its curved red beak open, swinging it from side to side.
		As soon as the stork senses that it has touched a fish or frog it snaps shut.
	www.blackbrookzoologicalpark.co.uk /showfactsheet.php?species_id=13 (162 words)

	Ciconiidae (Storks)
		The stork family consists of 17 different species that span all continents except Antarctica.
		Storks are large wading birds with fl, gray and white feathers and long, strong bills.
		The diet of a stork can include fish, insects, and dead animals, depending on species.
	www.thebigzoo.com /zoo/Ciconiidae.asp (52 words)

	larvalbugzoo - birds page 4
		Animal Stories: The only native stork in North America is the wood stork.
		I noticed a large white bird flying not too high overhead, and it turned out to be a wood stork.
		Although the storks used to nest in the lower part of Florida, in recent years they have moved to more northerly areas, such as Georgia, where they still nest in sizeable rookeries.
	www.geocities.com /larvalbugzoo/birds4.html (156 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Nature
		Painted stork is the white stork with a delicate rose pink hue on its wings.
		A large number of resident birds, including red jungle fowl, large Indian parakeet, Indian cuckoo, bank myna, wood shrike, yellow-eyed babbler and crested bunting, can be seen.
		Four species — darter, white-eyed pochard, pallid harrier and painted stork — which have been declared globally threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have been recorded.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040926/spectrum/nature.htm (534 words)

	The Stork's Nest : www.ClevelandStorksNest.com : Lawn Stork Rental
		Our stork rental includes a personalized star keepsake with your newborn’s name, weight, length, and date of birth.
		Call us and give us your information and we will reserve a stork for you 4 days prior to your due date and 4 days after your due date.
		When your baby is born, simply call us with the birth information, and we will have the stork ready for you when you arrive home from the hospital.
	www.clevelandstorksnest.com /index.html (156 words)

	CJOnline.com : In-Depth : Topeka Zoo
		A painted stork that escaped from the Topeka Zoo on Oct. 7 has been found in Oklahoma City, and the director of the Topeka Zoo has made a public apology for misleading the public about the incident.
		Topeka Zoo director Mike Coker said during a hastily called news conference Thursday in the lobby of city hall that the stork had been found in someone's back yard in Oklahoma City and was being held in a facility managed by the Wildcare Foundation there.
		Coker was asked in late October to respond to a report that two storks had escaped from the zoo and one hadn't come back.
	www.cjonline.com /indepth/zoo/stories/120701_com_stork.shtml (507 words)

	INDOlink Travelog: Keoladeo Sanctuary
		Seventeen species of birds, namely, grey heron, purple heron, night heron, large egret, median egret, little egret, cattle egret, large cormorant, Indian shag, little cormorant, darter, painted stork, open-billed stork, flnecked stork, whitenecked stork, white ibis and spoonbill are know to breed at Keoladeo heronry.
		The heronry is almost exclusively built on modest sized Acacia trees submerged in the marshes or on islands in their lakes.
		Painted stork needs fresh tender stems form treetops.
	www.indolink.com /Travel/keoladeo.html (1266 words)

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