5th grade. Unit 7. Lesson 7. White storks

White storks are big birds. They can be [blank_start]120[blank_end] cm long. A stork has long legs, large wings and a long red beak. These beautiful birds live in Europe and they spend winter in South [blank_start]Africa[blank_end]. They can fly more than [blank_start]10[blank_end] thousand km. Storks live in the fields near rivers, lakes and swamps and build their nests on top of trees and houses. One stork eats about [blank_start]100[blank_end] insects daily. A stork family needs about [blank_start]200[blank_end] kilograms of food in one season. Storks also eat mice, frogs, fish and earth-worms. In Belarus there are about [blank_start]40[blank_end] thousand storks. People call Belarus “the country under white wings” and believe that storks bring them luck and happiness.