They say that the stork delivers babies to their mothers, but all this one brought to a wildlife charity was an absolutely massive phone bill.

Polish environmental group EcoLogic had fitted a white stork, called Kajtka, with a tracker in an attempt to track his migratory habits.

They logged Kajtka’s winter migration route through Africa, and were preparing for his spring return, but after travelling over 3,700 miles to the Blue Nile Valley in eastern Sudan, all contact was lost.

White Stork (Stock picture: Getty)

Someone managed to figure out a clever way to avoid a hefty phone bill by stealing a storks sim card (Picture: Getty)

EcoLogic told the Super Express that that somebody mugged the bird of its tracker, and put the SIM card in their own phone before racking up more than 20 hours of calls.




Now the charity has been told that they must pay more than 10,000 polish zloty (£2,064), for the usage.

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Clearly someone had some important calls to be making, and has avoided being the one to pay for it.

Stork-tagging plays an important role in environmentalists’ research and conservation of migratory birds, and data from GPS trackers can be used to help scientists assess birds’ habits, social behaviour and threats.

The white stork is not currently at risk,but industrialisation and the draining of wetlands pushed the species towards near-extinction fifty years ago.

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