2 Storks Share Adorable Celebration After Laying An Egg

Finding out you are going to have a baby is exciting news regardless of what species you are. Watch these two storks’ adorable reaction to seeing their egg for the very first time.

The stork is a beautiful white colored species of bird native to Europe and parts of western Asia and Southern Africa. With a wingspan of over seven feet, the white stork is a massive yet highly graceful bird.

Although white storks do not always pair for life, they are monogamous breeders, only having babies with one partner in their entire lives. These birds will usually breed in areas with access to marshy wetlands and will proceed to build nests out of sticks in which to raise their young.

Many storks will choose to build their nests in small colonies where they can remain safe in the proximity of other stork families.

In this clip, we can see a stork pair spending a seemingly uneventful night in their nest in the Czech Republic. The pair is being monitored on a twenty-four-hour live stream camera watching the nest in night vision when suddenly the pair is joined by an unexpected visitor.

We see the female stork, Bohunka, shake and stand up seemingly startled, exposing a large white egg where she once sat. Bohunka then proceeded to stare intensely at her little creation, and was soon joined in her examination by papa stork.

After the two got a good look at the new member of their family, they celebrated together by quickly clapping their bills open and closed and tilting their heads back, a typical but adorable communication method for white storks.

There is one question that still stands though… if storks deliver human babies, who delivers stork babies?

"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him." Psalm 127:3