Unusual spectacle in Franconia: 25 storks on a house roof
Created: 06/12/2022, 21:45
By: Katarina Amtmann
25 storks sat on a roof in Bad Windsheim.
© NEWS5 / Weddig
25 storks were seen in Bad Windsheim, they sat in rank and file on a house roof.
Storks are considered lucky and bring children.
Bad Windsheim - In Central Franconia, observers saw an unusual sight: 25 storks were sitting on a roof in Bad Windsheim (Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district) on Saturday, December 3rd.
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25 storks on just one house roof in Bad Windsheim
The birds sat in rows and almost always the same distance apart on a house roof, photos from
News5
show.
In Europe, the stork is considered a bringer of luck and children.
25 storks sat in rows on a roof in Middle Franconia.
© NEWS5 / Weddig
Storks live in Bavaria: 35 occupied nests in Uehlfeld
Storks are generally widespread in the area, as shown on a map by the State Association for the Protection of Birds (LBV).
Numerous storks live in and around Nuremberg, just like in Upper Franconia.
In Uehlfeld (Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district), 35 occupied stork nests were counted in 2020, as reported by
nordbayern.de
at the time.
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Record value: Over 1000 pairs of storks in Bavaria in 2022
In general, storks are on the rise in Bavaria.
More than 1000 pairs were reported to the LBV 2022 - a record number.
Never since records began in 1900 have so many breeding storks been counted in Bavaria as this year, according to the July 2022 release.
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Most of the new settlements were in western Bavaria and there often in already densely occupied areas such as Oettingen in the Swabian Ries and Uehlfeld in the Middle Franconian Aisch Valley.
But new nests have also been reported from eastern Bavaria, for example in Döfering in the district of Cham or in Straubing.
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