Derbyshire landscape with stork
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Derbyshire landscape with stork by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Derbyshire landscape with stork
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 27 Mar 2012
Taken hurriedly from a passing bus. Storks are rare visitors to the UK; after correspondence with the county recorder for birds in Derbyshire, the evidence from other sightings points to it being an escape from a collection rather than a wild specimen.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.242657
Longitude
-1.293135