Our first egg on the live camera at Knepp Wilding hatched this morning! Parent storks Ania and Bartek have been keeping the new chick and remaining eggs safe and warm today. Watch them live on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=s0liN8…

ICYMI: Great BBC article last week about our work with white storks at Knepp and how for the first time in 600 years, white storks are breeding in Britain.
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So excited to share our brand new live camera on one of the stork nests at Knepp. Just in time for Mother's Day, the first egg was laid last night! whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/

This breeding season, we're hoping to share the wonders of stork development. Help us reach our £4000 goal for a live camera at Knepp! Every donation counts. justgiving.com/campaign/white…

We are excited to introduce our new Migration Map, crafted by ACE Nature. Check out the incredible journeys of satellite-tagged birds routes from southern England to North Africa - whitestorkproject.org/our-storks

Fantastic day at Knepp with some amazing volunteers. Huge efforts in coppicing for stork nesting material which is especially crucial for our non-flying storks in the predator-proof enclosure. Fingers crossed for a successful breeding season and huge thanks to all involved

Many of our storks have now migrated but some still remain in Sussex, a small group has been seen foraging in fields around the River Rother recently.
Thanks to everyone for ongoing sightings and wonderful photographs! 📷Thanks to Alastair Lloyd

Thank you to everyone who has submitted a sighting recently. We have had several reports of a group of around 30 storks foraging in fields around Sandwich, Kent, including 3 of our satellite tagged young from this year.

It's been a fantastic season for the storks and we are looking forward to updating everyone on progress. We have had 26 wild chicks fledge at Knepp, 33 juveniles from the Cotswold Wildlife Park released at Knepp and 8 satellite tags deployed on the young. Updates to follow!

We are excited to be welcoming Laura to the team as the new White Stork Project Officer. The role will involve managing the husbandry tasks, working with the fantastic stork volunteer team and coordinating education and outreach for the project.

Join us on an aerial journey over some of the stork nests at Knepp, giving us a respectable bird’s-eye view of the contents of the nests across the rewilding project.

Collecting data through the season helps document breeding activity and informs us of nest success rates.

In celebration of #WorldStorkDay Richard gives us an update on our special group of White Storks

White Stork Project

Our storks have already been seen in France, Spain & Morocco this year, inc. GB6U & GB9U which fledged from Knepp last year, and GBA0 which was part of the CotswoldWildlifePark release in August 2022.

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Some of our storks have been enjoying the winter sun in France and Spain, but only time will tell if they decide to head back north this year!

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The 2023 nesting season is well and truly underway at Knepp. With eleven active nests and birds sitting on at least five of these already, we're hopeful for another bumper breeding season! 🤞

#whitestork #speciesrestoration #rewilding #spring #visitsussex #sussexwildlife

Exciting news on the Wiveton White Stork. It's from a Dutch project (NLA on the side of coded ring). I'm awaiting more from the ringers. Thanks to Steve Gantlett for confirming NLA & 🇺🇦🕊 Bardsey Lodge & Bird Obs White Stork Project for their help with scheme information. Thx BE for seeing it early doors!

Our #WhiteStorks are laying! And this means that our 2023 fieldwork season started! In the next few months, we’ll be very busy monitoring nests, sampling chicks and GPS-tagging adults and juveniles. But don’t worry...we’ll keep you posted about all the news!
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The storks are busy getting ready for the upcoming nesting season as they repair and rebuild their nests after the winter. So far we have pairs occupying 7 of the 11 nests, with mating observed on 5 of these.

🤞for another successful season!

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