Satellite Tracking White Storks
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The blue area respresents the distribution of White Storks in Africa; and the green speck in the Western Cape represents the breeding range of the tiny but fascinating population that breeds in the southern hemisphere.

The big question in relation to the White Storks breeding in the Western Cape is "Where do the offspring go?"

Photo: Jan Hofmeyr One of four White Stork nests on the farm Grootvlakte in the Bredasdorp district, about 1990. This breeding site, in an avenue of eucalyptus trees, has subsequently been abandoned

If anyone knows of other breeding sites of White Storks in southern Africa, please inform Les Underhill at the ADU.

See also the article on White Storks on the ADU page in the February-March issue of Africa - Birds & Birding.

Stork-tracking links

• Tracking White storks from Belgium to Iberia and West Africa (in Dutch and English)
• "Birds without Borders" Satellite tracking of White Storks
• Satellite tracking of White storks (Czech site, English)
• Tracking Czech and Asian Black Storks (Czech site, English)
• Tracking White Storks from Germany to eastern Africa (German)