English: Black Stork
Russian: Чёрный аист
German: Schwarzstorch
French: Cigogne noire
Mongolian: Хар өрөвтас
Japanese: ナベコウ (Nabeko)

Body length:  90-105 cm
Wing span: 173-205 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: June-August

Egg number: 3-5 (occasionally 2-6)
Egg color: White with brown spots and blotches
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least Concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Small rodents, bird chicks, frogs, fishes, and aquatic invertebrates.

Habitat: Breeds in vast, swampy forests, mostly in aged mixed coniferous forest interspersed with rivers and marshes. Nest of sticks high in tree crown. Shy and withdrawn at nest side. Summer visitor, winters in Africa; migrates a mouth later than White Stork, returns in May. 

Identification: Barely smaller than White Stork, which it resembles in shape. At close range, easily told from White by black head, neck, breast and back with metallic green or violet gloss. In flight at distance the differences can be more difficult to see than expected; not that underwing has only white triangles on axillaries.

• Adult: Bill and legs red.
• Juvenile: Bill and legs grey-green.