If you are positively obsessed with storks,
specifically white storks, this Austrian documentary will make your day (or the
entire week). The documentary shows the magnificent birds as they interact with
vultures, cows, horses, martens and humans. The storks seem to nest practically
everywhere: cathedrals, crusader castles, power lines, radio masts and old
Roman aqueducts! They also spend time feeding at city dumps. At times, “Flight
of the Stork” becomes more like a brochure for tourists, showing Gibraltar,
Istanbul and a truly rustic village in Croatia. The documentary ends with the
stork slowly riding towards the sunset…well, almost. It turns out that the
white stork is originally an African bird which spread to Europe after the Ice
Age, and it still returns to its original homeland every winter. I would love to
see a similar documentary about, ahem, black storks…
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