Four young storks

The storks wandering around in the Flamingo Lagoon were born at the ‘Spanga Stork Station’. Their parents were not able to care for them when they were young and they would not have made it on their own. Pantropica has therefore rescued the young animals and provided them with the care they need.

Stork reproduction

A stork only weighs 40 grammes and has down feathers when it hatches from its large white egg after thirty-two days. About 60 days and a lot of flying exercises later, the chick can leave its nest. By then, its down feathers have been replaced by magnificent black-and-white plumage.

Did you know…

It wasn’t orchids alone that made the hearts of Pantropica’s founders beat faster? In 1981, the shocking news that storks risked disappearing from the Dutch landscape caught their attention.

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