Live Webcams in Latvia

Latvia's live webcams go deep into the trees: the nests of the black stork in the forests around Riga, high in the old trees, kept secret on the map. The black stork is the white stork's shy cousin, a bird of streams and old woodland that Latvia counts at only some 85 to 140 breeding pairs. The live webcams in Latvia keep Eastern European Time, UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer; the feeding visits come through the morning from about 03:00 UTC in May, and the parents change over at the nest in the early evening. Forest covers roughly half the country, which is why a bird this secretive still has room. The season runs from the storks' return in late March to fledging in August; through the winter the nest stands bare against the snow. Latvija is the local name.

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