Record Added: 8/23/2009 Setting  Hungary Topic Nature: Birds, Animals, F Publisher J. B. Lippincott Co. Year 1954 Age 4-8 Pages 32 Description blue cover
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First there was one stork, then there were two. They had just arrived from Africa. They built a nest on a wheel on top of a chimney. They built in the spring when there was no smoke and the chimney would not be used again until winter.
A pair of storks raise their young on a rooftop in Hungary and then join other storks as they migrate from Europe to Africa for the winter. |
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In southern Europe locals know well the whimsical sight of a stork nesting on a church spire or a barn. They consider it good luck when a stork chooses their house to build on, so back in the day they began strapping wagon wheels to the tops of chimneys to entice them.
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