Stork Fight

[nancy]

This video is from 2004, not this year. the nest is in Petershagen, Germany. It is long (11 min) but WOW!!!

When you click on the link, you will get a screnn asking what you want to do with the file. You can save it, or just watch it.

tinyurl.com/jhy9r

original:
www.wdr.de/themen/_config_/bin/mkram.jhtml/mk.ram?rtsp://ras01.wdr.de/online/2004/freizeit/1/storch/storchkampf_040423_g.rm


PS. After all that, one healthy chick was born.

[suzanne]

WOW is right - I thought they were peaceful animals!

So I guess the "plot" of this film is that a rival stork wanted to take over the resident stork's nest for his/her own eggs? I wonder if that happens a lot? I know of other birds who do that but I didn't think storks did.

[nancy]

That was one evil stork - trying to toss the eggs out of the nest! And one fierce female, doing everything she could to protect them. Took a long time for Dad to come back and deliver the final blow.