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English White Stork
Scientific (Ciconia ciconia ciconia)
Order CICONIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ciconiidae
Family (English) Storks
Other name(s) Cigogne blanche
Breeding Regions PAL, AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions AF, India
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh, Belarus,Benin,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic, Chad,China,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany, Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq, Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon, Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Mali,Malta, Mauritania,Moldova,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria, Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan, Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
ciconia Europe and w Asia, Middle East and n Africa, s Africa
asiatica c Asia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Weißstorch
French Cigogne blanche
Chinese 白鹳
Japanese シュバシコウ
Russian Белый аист
Spanish Cigüeña blanca
Portuguese cegonha-branca
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)