But, when doing research for her book, Warren Chadd discovered that the original myth actually describes the baby-snatching bird as a crane, not a stork. "It can be difficult to verify that one ...

We humans have a long history of associating the great birds with ... Gerena into a stork (why a stork? unclear). Gerena-in-stork-form, however, refused to abandon her newborn baby (who may ...

The rare white stork that vanished from the British countryside over 400 years ago has been successfully reintroduced in West Sussex. The rare birds ... in folklore carrying newborn babies ...