Stork village
A stork village , not to be equated with the term European stork village , according to a definition of the Wildlife Protection Society of Germany (NABU) a place with five or more occupied stork nests, d. H. so-called clumps. In Thuringia, for example, there are two stork villages based on this definition, Werraaue with five and Berka with six breeding pairs. A better known stork village is Bergenhusen ; 20 pairs of storks regularly breed in the village with around 750 inhabitants. The term is not very selective, because many municipalities consist of several localities or "villages" and can therefore also be called stork villages. Cities rich in storks such as B.Münster, with its 45 pairs of eyrie, is not a village itself, but a large city, the city of storks in North Rhine-Westphalia .