) breeds across Europe and Asia and winters south to South Africa. This is a stately fowl about one hundred cm tall, white with black flight feathers, a darkish crimson bill, and reddish legs. Its population is decreasing, partly because of humansdestruction of its habitat; one race, the Oriental white stork (
Thirteen yrs back, a weak fisherman in a small Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he listened to a sound guiding him and turned to locate a majestic remaining standing on the bow of casino his rowboat.