Black Stork Nest Cam

The Black Stork of Karula

This camera watches a Black Stork nest deep within Karula National Park, in southern Estonia. Unlike its bolder white cousin, the Black Stork shuns human company and nests in remote, old-growth woodland, making this feed a privileged glimpse of a notoriously elusive bird.

The Nest and Its Forest

The large stick nest sits on a wooded knoll framed by towering pine and spruce. The Estonian eagle and stork research community has monitored this site for years, ringing chicks and fitting them with GPS transmitters to trace their long migrations to Africa.

A National Park Refuge

Karula National Park is Estonia's smallest national park, a mosaic of rolling moraine hills, lakes and dense forest that shelters rich birdlife. The protected landscape provides the quiet, undisturbed habitat the Black Stork needs to breed successfully.

Watching Wildlife Unfold

Viewers may catch adults tending the nest, chicks growing through the breeding season, or simply the serene boreal woodland itself. It is a contemplative nature stream and a valuable conservation window onto a fragile species.