‘Stork-cam’ back online

Stork cam

The first resident of the nest arrived on Thursday morning with the other turning up a few hours later, in a sight which marks the beginning of Spring in Poland.

The nest in Przygodzice, mid-western Poland, has now been monitored live for seven years on the internet.

Since 2006, the life of the storks has been watched by some 5 million web users from 200 countries, including some places as far off as the Caymans, Belize, Nepal, Bolivia, Bhutan, Zaruba, Micronesia or Surinam, as well as China, the USA, Brazil, Panama and Bolivia, to name a few.

The nest has been on camera as part of an education and research programme dedicated to white storks.

The nest is situated close to the valley of the River Barycz and its inhabitants feed mostly in the area of Poland's biggest landscape park which encompasses the valley, at the same time a special protected area for birds within the European Natura 2000 network.

Researchers assure that the camera which spies on the storks has been mounted so as not to interfere with their daily lives. Last year the pair of white storks from Przygodzice managed to bring up five young ones.

You can watch the stork-cam here. (ek/pg)