#0556 · 🐦 birds
White Stork
🇳🇱 Ooievaar ·Ciconia ciconia
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what is it?
The white stork ( Ciconia ciconia ) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe (north to Finland), northwestern Africa, southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan) and southern...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 2,416 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #25 most seen of the birds in NL.
- 85,563 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 110 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White Stork
- Nederlands
- Ooievaar
- scientific name
- Ciconia ciconia
- class
- Aves
- order
- Ciconiiformes
- family
- Ciconiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 2,416
- sightings in Europe
- 73,013
- sightings worldwide
- 85,563
- GBIF records in NL
- 565,961
- weight
- 110 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ciconiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4733, Wikidata Q25352, GBIF 2481912, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.