Otto Lilienthal and his brother Gustav based the design for their glider on the flight of storks. Library of Congress The migratory white stork has been a welcome visitor to Europe for centuries. It ...

Back in my youth, enquiries from curious children about how babies arrived were met with a stock answer from embarrassed adults. They were brought to houses in the bills of flying storks, ran the ...

For the first time in roughly six centuries, London’s skies may again carry the long, steady wings of the white stork. These large birds once lived alongside people, nesting on rooftops and feeding in ...