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Britain to welcome first wild storks in centuries amid lockdown

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Storks are famous in folklore for delivering human babies to their parents. Conservationists are looking to return the favour with the imminent hatching of several white stork eggs on a 'rewilding' estate in southern England. If the chicks survive, they will be the first recorded wild breeding of white storks in over 600 years in Britain.
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