Thanks to a kindly permission (thanks a lot!) of the editors of the new, first English-language monograph of the White Stork in Poland “The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation” - professors Piotr Tryjanowski, Tim H. Sparks, Leszek Jerzak, Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe (Bogucki Scientific Editions, http://www.bogucki.com.pl) and our co-authors - we have a possibility and pleasure to make accessible for visitors of our website a few articles from this very interesting book, about studies done in South Wielkopolska region and by the members of South Wielkopolska Group of the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds mainly.
        One of these articles (Dolata 2006b) we propose to read as a first, because it can be helpful for the foreign people to understand the special position of the White Stork in Polish tradition, culture, researches and protection efforts. From the another reason we want to recommend an article of Antczak & Dolata (2006) - according to our knowledge it is first paper in the European White Stork bibliography especially focused on the non-breeding fraction. In the next (Dolata 2006a) You can find information and last year results of our on-line monitoring project of the White Stork nest in Przygodzice village, called “Close to Storks” (a view from the camera: http://www.bociany.ec.pl). The fourth article (Kosicki et al. 2006) is a review of knowledge (surprisingly very weak) about White Stork’s food in Poland, including own new data, partly from South Wielkopolska region, and interesting part about energy demand of storks. Fifth article (Orłowski et al. 2006) is first in the Central Europe about heavy metal concentrations in feathers of White Storks, with some methodological implications. The last but not least, sixth article (Rachel 2006) describing foraging sites of breeding White Storks in our region.

        We have a hope that all of them will be interesting for the readers.

        List of the accessible articles:

Antczak Marcin, Dolata Paweł T. 2006. Night roosts, flocking behavior and habitat use of the non-breeding fraction and migrating White Storks Ciconia ciconia in the Wielkopolska region (SW Poland). In: Tryjanowski P., Sparks T. H., Jerzak L. (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 209-224.

Dolata P. T. 2006. “Close to Storks” – a project of on-line monitoring of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia nest and potential use of on-line monitoring in education and research. In: Tryjanowski P., Sparks T. H., Jerzak L. (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 437-448.

Dolata P. T. 2006. The White Stork Ciconia ciconia protection in Poland by tradition, customs, law, and active efforts In: Tryjanowski P., Sparks T. H., Jerzak L. (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 437-448.

Kosicki J. Z., Profus P., Dolata P. T., Tobółka M. 2006. Food composition and energy demand of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia breeding population. Literature survey and preliminary results from Poland. In: Tryjanowski P., Sparks T. H., Jerzak L. (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 169-183.

Orłowski G., Polechoński R., Dobicki W., Dolata P. T. & Bednarska M. 2006. Heavy metal concentrations in feathers of White Storks Ciconia ciconia nesting in Central Poland: methodological implications for further ecotoxicological studies. In: Tryjanowski P., Sparks T. H., Jerzak L. (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 169-183.

Rachel M. 2006. Foraging sites of breeding White Storks Ciconia ciconia in the South Wielkopolska region. In: Tryjanowski Piotr, Sparks Tim H., Jerzak Leszek (red.). The White Stork in Poland: studies in biology, ecology and conservation. Bogucki Wyd. Nauk., Poznań: 161-167.