Sunday, May 20, 2007

Endangered stork egg hatches

Endangered stork egg hatches in wild (AP)

A chick is seen at the tip of the beak of parent white stork in a nest at Toyooka, western Japan, on Sunday May 20, 2007. An endangered white stork egg laid in the wild has hatched naturally in western Japan for the first time in more than 40 years, a local stork museum announced Sunday. The new chick's parents — a 7-year-old male Oriental white stork and his 9-year-old partner — were born through artificial breeding at a public breeding farm, the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork, and were released into the wild last September. The couple started mating in April and built their nest atop a 13-meter-tall manmade pole in a rice paddy near the farm in the city of Toyooka. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - An endangered white stork egg laid in the wild has hatched naturally in western Japan for the first time in more than 40 years, a local stork museum announced Sunday.


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