White storks leave Polish nests early after hot, dry summer

[Judi Lynn]

Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
Updated 8:23 am CDT, Tuesday, August 21, 2018

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — White storks that have nested in Poland are heading south for the winter earlier than usual after an especially hot, dry summer, a development experts are linking to climate change.

Poland has a large population of white storks that arrive from Africa every spring and nest all summer before returning south by the end of August.

Gabriela Kulakowska, an ornithologist with the Polish Society for Bird Protection, said storks in many cases have departed about two weeks earlier than usual this year.

"The nests in the villages are already empty," Kulakowska said Tuesday. "Ornithologists say they have never seen anything like this."

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/White-storks-leave-Polish-nests-early-after-hot-13170889.php







"A quarter of stork population are Polish-born"





Hooray for storks.

[4dog]

1. Or Polish-hatched, one might say