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The Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana) is a bird found in China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea. Found in China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea. It eats fish, insects and other small invertebrates and small mammals and birds. The IUCN Red List lists it as Endangered.

🏡 Where the Oriental stork lives

Found in China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐟 Fish70%
• 🐛 Insects & bugs10%
• 🐭 Mammals & birds10%
• 🦎 Reptiles & frogs10%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by Oscar Campbell (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC401954. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Oriental stork

Where does the Oriental stork live?

The Oriental stork lives in China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea. Found in China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea.

What does the Oriental stork eat?

fish (about 70%), insects and other small invertebrates (about 10%), small mammals and birds (about 10%), reptiles and frogs (about 10%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Oriental stork endangered?

Very few are left in the wild. Its IUCN Red List category is Endangered.

More birds from Asia

• Superb pitta
• Green racket-tail
• White-eyed river martin
• Barau's petrel
• Blue-crowned laughingthrush
• Aceh bulbul

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.