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Endangered stork hatched

TOKYO: An endangered white stork egg laid in the wild has hatched naturally in Japan for the first time in more than 40 years, a local stork museum announced on Sunday.

The new chick's parents — a seven-year-old male Oriental white stork and his nine-year-old partner — were born through artificial breeding at a public breeding farm, the Hyogo Prefectural Homeland for the Oriental White Stork, and were released into the wild last September.

The couple started mating in April and built their nest atop a 13-metre-tall manmade pole near the farm in Toyooka.

"The baby was born!" the Eco Museum Center for Oriental White Stork said in a statement on its Web site. ``It would be a major step forward for storks' return to the wild.'' — AP

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