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White stork. White stork — the most famous of storks. It is a white bird with black wing tips, long neck, long thin red beak and long reddish legs. When the wings of a stork composed, giving the impression that the entire rear part of the body of the black stork. Hence his Ukrainian name — chernoguz. Females are indistinguishable in color from the males, but slightly smaller. The growth of the white stork is 100-125 cm, wingspan is 155-200 cm, Weight of an adult bird is 4 kg. the life expectancy of a white stork is on average 20 years. Externally on the white stork Oriental stork is similar, but the last time he considered a separate species