wood stork
mycteria americana latin

Endangered wood storks also feed here, though they do not nest on the island.

Most were American white pelicans, wood storks and great blue herons.

Only the wood storks roosting in the pine trees seemed mournful.

Last year the entire newborn population of wood storks, an endangered species, starved in their nests.

Around the lagoon in the refuge are two Wood Stork refuges.

Around the Manatee River many birds can be found, some, such as the wood stork, considered endangered species.

It is an important breeding area for the endangered Wood Stork and other wetland birds.

The following threatened or endangered species are present in the refuge: wood stork, American alligator and bald eagle.

Two prehistoric relatives of the Wood Stork have been described from fossils:

The adult is distinguishable from the Wood Stork, which is much larger and its wings have more black on them.

A wood stork gulped down a frog, the squirming lunch moving slowly down the bird's long neck.

Among the wildlife of the park are black bears, river otters, alligators, wood storks, and sandhill cranes.

Other rare species that inhabit the river basin include the wood stork, bald eagle, and Atlantic salt marsh snake.

Many species are disappearing, including the Florida panther, the wood stork and the Cape Sable sparrow.

The latter seems to have been a larger sister species of the Wood Stork, which it replaced in prehistoric North America.

The reserve is home to many threatened and endangered species, including sea turtles, sturgeons, least terns and wood storks.

The park's wading birds include egrets, herons, wood stork and American White Ibis.

In addition, this exhibit has become a home for a large breeding colony for the highly endangered Wood Stork, native to Florida.

The antelope exhibit in the Plains of East Africa has become home to a large breeding colony of wood storks.

In the summer, wood storks can be found resting and feeding in the back-water sloughs and moist soil units.

The name tuiuiu is also used in southern Brazil for the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana).

H. crumenium - wood stork (Mycteria americana)

Wood storks' reproductive cycles coincide with the dry season, when small fish and amphibians are trapped in shallow pools and puddles.

Wading birds like egrets, ibises, herons and wood storks hunt, preen and squawk.

Industrious fiddler crabs scurry by the thousands across the marshland muck, while egrets and wood storks perch nearby.

The name tuiuiu is also used in southern Brazil for the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana).

H. crumenium - wood stork (Mycteria americana)

Wood storks (Mycteria americana) nest almost exclusively in cypress forests and in the past 100 years have seen a dramatic decline, probably due to lack of reproduction tied to controlled water.

Man-made wetlands designed to remove nitrogen before runoff from agriculture enters the Everglades in Florida are used as breeding sites for a number of birds, including the endangered wood stork (Mycteria americana).