Pillage en direct d’un nid de Cigognes noires par une Martre des pins

The Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) is a secretive bird, when the White Stork is a popular and conspiscuous. Throughout its widespread distribution across three continents, it occupies a range of different habitats. However, it generally prefers old, undisturbed, open forest and woodland, foraging in streams, pools, marshes, riverbanks, swampy patches, damp meadows and occasionally in grasslands. It breeds across the Palaearctic, with a patchier distribution in Western Europe. In Belgium, it disappeared during the 19th century, but a nest was discovered in 1989, and since this year new nests are discovered every year, mainly in the forests of the Ardenne, in the province of Luxembourg.
The Solon association has been created in 1992 to study the forests of Wallonie. As in 2010, four cameras were placed near four potential nests. Two were finally occupied. The 25th of April 2011, a nest was attacked by a Pine Marten which ate the four eggs despite the efforts of a Stork to chase it.
A spectacular video can be seen here.