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English Black Stork
Scientific (Ciconia nigra)
Order CICONIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ciconiidae
Family (English) Storks
Other name(s) Cigogne noire
Breeding Regions AF, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions Namibia and Malawi to South Africa, c Europe to n China
Nonbreeding Range Subregions n, e Africa, s Asia
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bangladesh,Belarus,Benin, Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China, Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia, Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea-Bissau, Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan, Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique, Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Pakistan,Palestine, Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,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, Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Schwarzstorch
French Cigogne noire
Chinese 黑鹳
Japanese ナベコウ
Russian Чёрный аист
Spanish Cigüeña negra
Portuguese cegonha-preta
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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)
PAL 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)