Pet's name for stork is "bociek" (diminutive form of "bocian"). Bociek is common in our culture, appears in literature and paintings. "storks even come up in Adam Mickiewicz's national epic Pan Tadeusz: For already the stork had flown back to its native pine And had spread its white wings, the early standard of spring" Source: https://culture.pl/en/article/bocian "Poland is a stork paradise. Each year in spring, ca. 25 percent of the total population of these birds fly to Poland, which makes us the world's top country in this respect and provides grounds for the claim that every fourth white stork is a Pole. Poles love storks. In many places those birds are encouraged to build their nests with special frames on house roofs or on poles near farms. People in the country still believe that a stork nest brings luck, protects the house against fires or against being struck by lightning. In 2004, over 52,000 stork nests were reported in Poland." Source: https://poland.pl/tourism/nature/stork-village/ "It is a success story of happy coexistence: outnumbered by storks, residents of the Polish hamlet of Zywkowo welcome the birds on their roofs in exchange for good luck and, if you believe legend, newborns. (...) "We've always lived under the protective wing of the stork and have never known misery."" Source: https://phys.org/news/2013-08-poland-stork-friend.html "In Poland, electric poles have been modified with a platform at the top to prevent the white stork's large nest from disrupting the electricity supply, and sometimes nests are moved from an electric pole to a man-made platform." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_stork Other articles: https://ampoleagle.com/storks-h-polandhs-beloved-birds-p13453-124.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/travel/poland-storks.html https://lovepoland.org/portfolio-posts/stork/
