\n The White Stork, known as GBY9 or Jordi, hatched last year from a ground nest at Knepp Wilding in West Sussex as part of the White Stork Project and flew east before being spotted in Italy, a path never before recorded in the project\u2019s history.\n<\/p>\n
\n Flying alongside his brother, Jordi\u00a0spent time in the north-east of Italy and has since flown west to a marsh within a small wildlife park, south of Turin.\n<\/p>\n
\n White Storks were once considered a native species in Britain (Image: Sue Barnett)\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Aldina Franco, from the University of East Anglia, said one of the most remarkable part of the storks’ journey was crossing mountain peaks at more than 3,000 metres altitude.\n<\/p>\n
\n She added that this was “particularly impressive for storks- a soaring species that likes to migrate using thermals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Thermals are rising columns of warm air that allow birds to gain altitude without wasting energy.\n<\/p>\n
\n The storks have been spotted in Italy by several observers.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The White Stork Project was first founded in 2016 with a pair of non-flying birds from Poland, donated by Warsaw zoo.\n<\/p>\n
\n Each year, their offspring spend time at Knepp Estate and Wadhurst Park, both in Sussex, to develop site loyalty, before being released into the wild.\n<\/p>\n
\n The aim is that the storks then return to Sussex when they are ready to breed.\n<\/p>\n
\n White Storks were originally native to Britain but are unlikely to return as a breeding species without interventions such as the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Stork, known as GBY9 or Jordi, hatched last year from a ground nest at Knepp Wilding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-609338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}