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Of the most distinctive birds in europe and western asia. but they're facing an increasing number of hazards. climate change is impacting their migration routes between europe and africa. and now there's been a sudden spike in stork deaths in hungary. our correspondent nick thorpe has been investigating. the famous white storks, a protected species, are dying on the great hungarian plain. activists found dozens of dead birds in recent weeks — some electrocuted, others poisoned. probably, the stork was resting on the pool when he or she started to fly and opened the wings. one edge of the win...

The line and one of the legs was still on the iron part of the pylon and electricity went through the body. this is how they die. 150,000 birds are electrocuted each year in hungary. the hazard to birds of these electric poles has long been recognised and there are easy solutions. you can install plastic insulating caps on the wires, even perches where the birds can stand. but they're expensive to install. 0nly10% of pylons are insulated. in recent weeks, drought has made the problem worse. storks are attracted to a waste dump next to the pylons. this is a trap. because of the drought, there a...

In stork deaths in hungary. our correspondent nick thorpe has been investigating. (tx our correspondent nick thorpe has been investigating. the famous white storks, a protected species, are dying on the great hungarian plain. activists found dozens of dead birds in recent weeks. some electrocuted, others poisoned. probably, the stork was resting on the pool when he or she started to fly and opened the wings. one edge of the wing touched the line and one of the legs was still on the iron part of the pylon and electricity went through the body. this is how they die. 150,000 birds are electrocute...

Accidental, they don't believe it would be from a cigarette but. they said the heat was a major impact so whether or not a pylon nearby whether or not a pylon nearby whether that was from glass reflecting on a bit of grass and the hot extreme temperatures making that wind very and political and also making it spread so quickly. so many affected by this. road closures here, there and everywhere. we saw those pictures at dartford and also a local century, they were affected by that. 12 horses having to be rescued over fears that potentially, these wildfires would spread to the stables and hurt t...

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