White Stork Nest in Mokrelipie

The Stork Nest

This camera is trained on a large white stork nest built atop a sturdy pole beside a family home. Constructed from interwoven branches and twigs, the nest is reused and enlarged year after year, growing into an impressive platform that can weigh hundreds of kilograms.

Life on the Nest

Viewers can watch adult storks feeding and sheltering their chicks, rearranging nesting material, and standing guard over their brood. The famous bill-clattering greeting between mates is a memorable highlight of the breeding cycle.

The Village of Mokrelipie

The nest overlooks Mokrelipie, a small rural village in the Lublin region of southeastern Poland. Open crop fields and scattered farmsteads surround the site, a landscape typical of the country's agricultural heartland.

White Storks in Poland

Poland hosts one of the world's largest populations of the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), a bird deeply woven into local folklore as a symbol of good fortune. These long-distance migrants travel thousands of kilometres between Europe and Africa each year.