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072 Black stork in Ranthambore National Park Photo by Giles Laurent🐦

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SpeciesCiconiiformesCiconiidae
Birds

🐦Black Stork

Ciconia nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)

La Cigogne noire (Ciconia nigra) est une espèce d'oiseaux de la famille des Ciconiidae. À peine plus petite et plus farouche que la Cigogne blanche (Ciconia ciconia), elle peut vivre jusqu'à 20 ans. Elle se nourrit principalement d'amphibiens et d'insectes. On la rencontre en Eurasie et en Afrique, où elle fréquente les forêts profondes avec de vieux arbres et proches de zones humides.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
2.93 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
31 years
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Everything we know about the Black Stork

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.93 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.93 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.24 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.53 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.18 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.19 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
31 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black Stork yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCiconiiformes
  5. ›familyCiconiidae
  6. ›genusCiconia
  7. ›speciesCiconia nigra
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyCiconiidae
  4. genusCiconia
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyCiconiidae
  11. genusCiconia
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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Eurasian Spoonbill — last shared an ancestor ≈ 65 million years ago.
In other languages
Schwarzstorch (de), чёрный аист (ru), cigonya negra (ca), čáp černý (cs), Sort stork (da), Cigüeña negra (es) … and 27 more languages
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