Report a sighting — White Stork Project

Have you seen a White Stork somewhere in the UK?

If so, not only would we love to hear about it, but your information may provide extremely valuable data for the project.

In particular, we are interested in knowing where our individually identifiable White Storks are going.

To study them, we have given them specially designed blue coloured plastic rings, which each have a unique code on them.

An example of one of these is shown in the accompanying photo.

This will help us to understand more about the birds' movements in the breeding and non-breeding season. White storks are known to undertake long migratory journeys, and the marking of individual birds provides vital information about the amazing journeys these birds make.

Please use this form to submit your sighting records for White Storks. Try to include as much information as possible, thank you.

Name

First Name

Last Name

By providing your email address, you are allowing the White Stork Project to use this information to contact you for further information about the sighting. We will only keep your details to correspond with you about the sighting, after which they will be deleted. We will not store your details anywhere else or use them for any other purposes.

Date of stork sighting

YYYY

Time of sighting

Hour

Minute

Second

Did the stork have a ring on its legs?

Yes

Unsure

If it had a blue ring, example GB01, please give the number here:

Do you have a photo of the ring?

If you have a photo, please email to whitestorksgb@gmail.com

Yes

Location of sighting, please give a grid reference if possible or nearest postcode

Please try to be as accurate as possible, you can use GPS coordinates, What3Words or a nearby postcode with a description of the location.

Other information

Use this box to tell us further information e.g. what was it doing? what habitat was it in? what condition was it in? was it with other birds? etc.