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It has been confirmed that a pair of storks artificially bred in Korea have been nesting in the wild for 2 years and successfully breeding.

However, I am concerned about the safety of the stork family as this nest is located in a power transmission tower with high-voltage lines.



Reporter Lee Yong-shik covered the story.



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Baby storks are crouching on top of a 40-meter-tall power transmission tower.



One step at a time, he climbs the pylon and tries to get the young stork out of the nest, but suddenly he pecks him with his beak.



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Carefully, one by one, the cages carrying 4 young are hung on ropes and sent down to the ground.




A ring finger with a unique number is attached to the leg, blood for sex test is also drawn, and then returned to the nest in a hurry before the mother arrives.



[Ha Dong-soo/Researcher at Yesan Stork Park: The rhythm used in Korea is a combination of alphabets and numbers, and I am working on the rhythm because I can tell what year I was born and what the gender is.]



A pair of artificially bred storks in Korea were first artificially bred last year. It garnered the attention of academia by nesting in a transmission tower, a wild nest, rather than a nest tower.



[Kim Soo-kyung/Senior Researcher at Yesan Stork Park: The transmission tower is the tallest structure in the vicinity, and it seems to be an attractive nesting place for storks because it is sturdy.]



Concerned about electric shock and power outage, the transmission tower nest was demolished and a pinwheel was installed, but the same place He came back to raise the young.



This place, where storks have built a nest for the second year and succeeded in breeding, is equipped with a good habitat for feeding activities as there is extensive agricultural land around it.



In addition to this, the transmission tower stork nests have been added to two more this year, and breeding is in progress.



To prevent electric shock, it is necessary to build an artificial nest tower around the power transmission tower, but the Cultural Heritage Administration is unable to speed up due to lack of budget.



(Video coverage: Kang Yun-gu, screen provided: Yesan Stork Park)