Hwangsae

Basic information

Designation

Natural Monument No.199

Category

동식물

Designated year

1968

Location

., 기타— 기타 전국일원

Coordinates

36.543101, 126.799557Kakao address conversion

This English description was machine-translated and may contain inaccuracies. Refer to the original Korean text for details.

The Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) is distributed and limited to Siberia, northeastern China, Japan, and Korea, wintering in eastern China and Korea. Its body size is 102 cm with a white head and body, straight thick black beak with black wing feathers and red legs. It inhabits waterside areas, building large plate-shaped nests 5-20 meters high in tree tops. Once commonly breeding as a resident bird throughout Korea, in 1971 a male Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) breeding in Eumseong County was shot and killed by a hunter, while the breeding female was transferred to the Changgyeong Zoo in 1983 but died in 1994, with resident Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana)s disappearing from Korea. Currently, 5-10 birds irregularly arrive as winter visitors to areas including Cheonsu Bay, Suncheon Junam Reservoir, and Upo Wetland. With only approximately 660 Oriental Storks remaining worldwide, it is an internationally protected endangered bird species, designated and protected as a natural monument.

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