Talk:Stork

Stork aerial infant delivery - citations.

Note that the assertion that the originates as an English folk tale is highly unlikely since there are no storks in the British Isle, apart from the very occasional visitor. I note that the article does not say anything about distribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eiamjw (talk • contribs) 11:27, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

The fact that parents tell kids they've been brought by the stork needs no references, it is just as trivial knowledge as water is wet.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.70.32.136 (talk) 20:03, 16 July 2006

Water is wet?! Vitriol 16:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

citation is needed for the claim that it comes mainly from holland and germany, though. I rearranged that sentence, because it didn't seem to belong in the etymology section unless the important point was that it originated from the same place as the word. Jethrobrice 11:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

    The bare fact may or not be worthy of mention, but the "Mythology of storks" section is incomplete without discusssion of why. Here is a valuable source:

Storks Bring Babies? Transcript-592 from BirdNote.

--Jerzy•t 20:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

    On reflection, the IP must mean, by

just as trivial knowledge as water is wet

that everyone knows without making noticable effort to learn it, that water is wet (since that knowledge is actually of great consequence, rather than having trivial value). But they are mistaken: by implying that everyone knows about the myth, they're simply saying that the :en:WP is written for people who grew up where the myth is well-known, and not for the vast number of people who learned their English in places where the local culture has not been pervaded by even the most trivial bullshit from the West. English is an international language that is learned by many who are likely to first encounter invocations of this bullshit, well after acquiring functional or even fluent English. Even awkwardly large dictionaries are likely to offer no hint of the myth, so even the bare mention would be of value: helping distingush the bullshit for what it is, is a valuable function of a 'pedia.
--Jerzy•t 06:34, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

See White stork for sourced description of folk beliefs regarding storks. In parts of Europe and western Asia it may still be possible to find nesting platforms built above houses, in the belief that a stork brings fertility or good fortune. 68.116.168.154 (talk) 13:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Lifetıme

How long does it live? --195.3.245.67 06:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Depends what kind, White Storks live for about 30 years. ReedBlower (talk) 13:47, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Add link to frwiki:ciconia as a French translation.

Please, add a french link to fr:Ciconia

The interface actually refuse it because Ciconia in the French version actually redirect to Cigogne, which is probably fine unless someone add enough information to be worth a separate page (that will be automatically managed shoud it ever be split). I don't know how it is supposed to be done, but hopefully someone with enough rights to do it will fix it.

In any case, it doesn't make sense that there is no link to the French Ciconia, and that would be helpful to native French speakers that have no clue of what is a Stork (except by guessing from the picture). Actually, most native French speakers don't know either what is a fr:ciconia, but that is not a real issue since it will currently be redirected to Cigogne and it won't cause much confusion.

4 April 2014 (UTC)

No knowledge of this animal

But isn't the Ciconiidae a family in the infobox not genera. I'm confused on the matter Alexis Ivanov (talk) 16:36, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Babies

What can we improve with those information on cultural significance in this baby carrying stuffs? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 09:10, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Clarification needed

From the article: "...the order Ciconiiformes, which was once much larger and held a number of families including herons and ibises." Why was it much larger in the past? Did it get redefined? Or did it contain a lot of species that have since gone extinct?2607:FEA8:3D20:856:C107:8A2D:4DF0:3B11 (talk) 14:21, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

• I have done so. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:25, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

In Fiction section

Good Morning, do you think it would be appropriate to add the In Fiction section to this page? ReedBlower (talk) 09:52, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

ReedBlower, I'll give you my opinion, since I have one (I've done some editing in the area). Not unreasonable, but I'd like even more to see a well-sourced section along the lines of Cultural depictions of ravens. On "In fiction" sections, they can be ok but use secondary sources, not the fiction itself but a decent, scholarly if possible, source that noticed that there was a stork in whatever story. I like Aesop, Storks make me think about WP:PROPORTION, especially without a good ref. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:55, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Claim about being revered in Islam

Are there any other sources for the claim that "Muslims also traditionally revered storks because they made an annual pilgrimage to Mecca on their migration" aside from the one cited? I read the source myself and found no references to storks in Islam at all, and only found a section discussing the belief that swallows travelled to Mecca during migration. Teddybearbutch (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)