Rewilding group to assess possible return of white storks to London | Rewilding

A urban re -winding group is looking for the views of white storks about the potential return of white storks to London as part of a project to see if birds can build a house in the capital.

White storks once built in England’s sky and built their large nests on roofs and trees, but they disappeared as a reproductive bird as a result of hunting and habitat loss centuries ago.

The Citizen Zoo, an organization that specializes in the urban re -winding under society, makes an assessment of making London a “white stork -friendly city”. Habitat map will involve contact with the districts in the capital to measure their interests and examine the people about the birds.

The White Stork Project in Sussex has tried to create new colonies of rehabilitated birds in Knepp and Wadhurst Park since 2016. They can act as a “magnet ve for wild birds visiting the continent and the first reproduction success of the project was in 2020.

In the twenty years after the start of the project, there were only 27 white stork records in the Great London, but there were 472 landscapes between 2016 and 2023, and the figures increased every year.

“If you look at the European landscapes, a bird that can develop in urban landscapes. What we want to see is that we can make London a white stork friendly environment and embrace it because it should be close to nature”.

The questionnaire is directed by Dr Rachel White of the University of Brighton, and two stages reflecting a national survey as part of the White Stork project in Sussex.

The first stage involved a representative example of 1,000 London, and the second stage asked the residents and frequent visitors to give their views on white storks and their places in the capital.

. London Survey Citizen Zoo’s Zoo will feed on the next steps more widely, such as creating more habitats or even creating a version in Sussex to promote political and public enthusiasm and existence of political enthusiasm and habitat presence and natural colonization.

The Citizen Zoo had previously worked with communities to bring back the swaddles to Ealing, to re -introduce the water volumes in Surrey and to restore the wetlands in the capital.