
Stork egg hatches naturally in the wild for 1st time in 43 years
Japan Today - News - Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 16:57 EDT
KOBE ---An egg laid by artificially-bred oriental white storks that were released into the wild in 2006 has hatched naturally, a breeding farm in Hyogo Prefecture said Sunday. In 43 years, it is the first confirmed hatching of an egg laid naturally by storks living in the wild, according to the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Storkhttp://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/407144