East Europeans love the storks.

There is the story of the Horvatski man who takes care of Melana (little one). It is the same name as Melania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vrWre7am0

Bulgarians rescue cold-impaired storks.

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-bulgarians-frozen-storks.html

The storks fly over Turkey on their way home (wherever that is).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZ44QhLQec

There are European stork villages with artificial nesting sites.

https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-do/endangered-species/stork/storks-in-europe/projects/european-stork-villages/

Storks from Hungary fly South to Chad (Central Africa), South Africa and Israel. The stork is an official bird of Belarus and Lithuania.