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Fonzy - Stork in Flight E-3 2008 10-Oct-2008
Fonzy - Stork landing

I know this is not a super sharp shot, but I like to share it. I was walking and suddenly a flapping noise came in to my ears , I looked up and tried to focus real fast on the landing Stork.

My Birds 2005 17-Jun-2005
Olav Agnar Frogner Storks 2

Etymology: The modern English word can be traced back to Proto-Germanic *sturkaz. Nearly every Germanic language has a descendant of this proto-language word to indicate the (White) stork. Related names also occur in some Eastern European languages, originating as Germanic loanwords.

According to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the Germanic root is probably related to the modern English "stark", in reference to the stiff or rigid posture of a European species, the White Stork. A non-Germanic word linked to it may be Greek torgos ("vulture").

In some West Germanic languages cognate words of a different etymology exist. They originate from *uda-faro, uda being related to water meaning something like swamp or moist area and faro being related to fare; so *uda-faro is something like he who walks in the swamp. In later times this name got reanalysed as *ōdaboro, ōda "fortune, wealth" + boro "bearer" meaning he who brings wealth adding to the myth of storks as maintainers of welfare and bringers of children.

In Estonian, "stork" is toonekurg, which is derived from toonela (underworld in Estonian folklore) + kurg (crane). It may seem not to make sense to associate the now-common White Stork with death, but at the times storks were named, the now-rare Black Stork was probably the more common species. (Wikipedia)

Danube Delta 25-Sep-2011
Olav Agnar Frogner Storks 3

Mythology of storks: An ancient etymology about the Pelasgians, ancient pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece, links pelasgos to pelargos "stork", and postulates that the Pelasgians were migrants like storks, possibly from Egypt, where they nest. Aristophanes deals effectively with this etymology in his comedy the Birds. One of the laws of "the storks" in the satirical cloud-cuckoo-land (punning on the Athenian belief that they were originally Pelasgians) is that grown-up storks must support their parents by migrating elsewhere and conducting warfare. In Aesop's tale "The Frogs Who Desired a King" the frogs ask Zeus for a king, and he first sends them the ineffective King Log and then the King Stork who devours his frog subjects. In this context, viewed from the point of view of a frog who may get eaten by a stork, the stork is the symbol of tyrannical power. In English folk mythology and old wive's tales, storks deliver newborn babies to mothers by dropping them down chimneys. This is the origin of the phrase "Dr. Stork" to refer to an obstetrician. (Wikipedia)

Danube Delta 25-Sep-2011
Igal Kerbes storm Documents 26-Dec-2005
Ricardo Rico Storm

storm in the High Tatras, Slovaquia.

Ricardo R. Rico 09-Mar-2007
Gerthard Crnkovic Storm Sea and lakes 12-Mar-2008
Mary Hammel Storm

Icicles cling to power line during ice storm, Manhattan, KS

mHammel Images 16-Dec-2007
Ricardo Rico Storm !! Ricardo R. Rico 27-Nov-2007
Wolfgang Tischlinger Storm 1 e 300 14-Mar-2008