Overview

• Local monitors report 96 juveniles from 50 nests setting off, with flocks of up to 50 birds seen gathering over the Donaumoos and near Burgheim.
• The district’s stork population has grown to about 200 since late‑1980s nest installations, a development the Landesbund für Vogelschutz calls phenomenal.
• Nabu places the white stork at roughly 330,000 breeding pairs worldwide and about 13,500 in Germany, including more than 1,300 in Bavaria.
• More adults now skip the long Africa route to stay in Bavaria or southern Europe, a trend linked to climate and feeding shifts that also weaken the classic east–west divide.
• Local management tensions are emerging as Hohenfels seeks population regulation, while two injured birds are being rehabilitated by Tierhilfe Jonathan.