Each year the female usually lays four eggs, which hatch asynchronously, 33 or 34 days after laying.
Both parents take turns incubating the eggs and feeding young.
The young leave the nest 58-64 days after hatching, and continue to be fed by their parents during 7-20 days.
The White Storks build a large stick nest in trees, on buildings, or on purpose-built man-made platforms.
Each nest is 1–2 m in depth, 0.8–1.5 m in diameter and 60–250 kg in weight.
There are often nests close to human habitation, nests can be seen on churches and other buildings.
The nest is typically used year after year especially by older males. The males arrive earlier in the season and choose the nests.
Larger nests are associated with greater numbers of young successfully fledged, and appear to be sought after.
Storks have no syrinx and are mute, giving no call; bill-clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest.
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