2019 June Highlights Gallery

White stork (Ciconia ciconia) pair mating on their nest at sunset, Knepp estate, Sussex

White stork (Ciconia ciconia) pair mating on their nest at sunset, Knepp estate, Sussex, UK, April 2019. This is the first recorded instance of White storks nesting in the UK for several hundreds of years

Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animal Home, Animalia, Aves, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bird, Birds, Ciconia, Ciconia Ciconia, Ciconiidae, Ciconiiformes, Conservation, Copulation, England, Europe, European White Stork, Great Britain, Male Female Pair, Mating Behaviour, Nest, Reproduction, Restoration, Returned, Returning, Rewilding, Stork, Sussex, Two, Uk, Vertebrate, Western Europe, White Stork, Wildlife

Rock flagtail (Kuhlia rupestris) fish in river on the Southern Lagoon, Forgotten Coast

Rock flagtail (Kuhlia rupestris) fish in river on the Southern Lagoon, Forgotten Coast, Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems UNESCO World Heritage Site. New Caledonia

Acanthopteri, Actinopterygii, Animal, Animalia, Biodiversity Hotspot, Biodiversity Hotspots, Bony Fish, Coast, Coastal, Fish, Flowing Water, Freshwater, Kuhlia, Kuhlia Rupestris, Kuhliidae, New Caledonia, Oceania, Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Percomorphi, Protected Area, Ray Finned Fish, River, Underwater, Unesco World Heritage Site, Vertebrate, Water, Wildlife

Recently hatched White stork (Ciconia ciconia) chicks begging for food in their nest

Recently hatched White stork (Ciconia ciconia) chicks begging for food in their nest. In captive breeding colony raising young birds for UK White Stork reintroduction project at the Knepp Estate. Cotswold Wildlife Park, Oxfordshire, UK, April 2019. Property released

Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animal Home, Animalia, Aves, Baby, Begging, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bird, Birds, Captive Breeding, Chick, Ciconia, Ciconia Ciconia, Ciconiidae, Ciconiiformes, Conservation, England, Europe, European White Stork, Great Britain, Nest, Reintroduced, Reintroduction, Restoration, Rewilding, Species Recovery Programs, Stork, Sussex, Uk, Vertebrate, Western Europe, White Stork, Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, Young Animal