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White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)Where and when to see it in the UK

Resident · reporting peaks May to July · Storks · BOU category AEF

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
Krzysztof Kin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
White Stork: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

White Stork has been recorded in 313 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (11%) in records to 2026. Resident in the UK. Its strongest squares are in England, Scotland and Wales. Reporting peaks in May to July.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
100% or more of visits
High
7% to 100%
Moderate
<1% to 7%
Low
under <1%
Surveyed, not recorded
at least 20 qualifying visits, no record
Insufficient records
too few visits to say
Lighter fill
Few visits, lower confidence
Small dot
Occasional: a single record, or out of season

Seasonality

Reporting rate by month, relative to the peak month
MonthRelative to peakShare of visitsTypical class
January 39%<1%Very high
February 40%<1%Very high
March 45%<1%Very high
April 76%<1%Very high
May 88%<1%Very high
June 90%<1%Very high
July 100%<1%Very high
August 57%<1%Very high
September 41%<1%Very high
October 30%<1%Very high
November 45%<1%Moderate
December 34%<1%Moderate

Squares with the highest reporting rate in May

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
J37Belfast, Northern Ireland100%Very high
J44Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland100%Very high
SD42Lancashire, England100%Very high
SE04Bradford, England100%Very high
SK53Nottinghamshire, England100%Very high
SK59Doncaster, England100%Very high
SK80Rutland, England100%Very high
SP49Leicestershire, England100%Very high
ST22Somerset, England100%Very high
ST59Monmouthshire, Wales100%Very high

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.