Birds of the World

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Genus: Ciconia (8 species)


Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii) Range: AF, PAL: Senegal to Ethiopia and sw Arabian Pen. (primarily w Yemen) Sakania, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Oriental Stork (Ciconia boyciana) Endangered Range: PAL: se Siberia, ne China, Korea, Japan South Korea
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.


White Stork (Ciconia ciconia ciconia) Range: PAL, AF: widespread Bulgaria
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Asian Woolly-necked Stork (Ciconia episcopus episcopus) Near Threatened Range: OR, AU: widespread Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
Photograph by Rainbirder (Steve Garvie) Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Maguari Stork (Ciconia maguari) Range: SA: e Colombia and Venezuela to c Argentina San Miguel, Corrientes Province, Argentina
Photograph by Gustavo Masuzzo © All Rights Reserved.

A captive, very white individual.


African Woolly-necked Stork (Ciconia microscelis) Range: AF: Africa s of the Sahara Western Cape, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

Recently split with the Asian Woolly-necked Stork. Note the African has a black head and face.


Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) Range: AF, PAL: Namibia and Malawi to South Africa, c Europe to n China Deosai National Park, Pakistan
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Storm's Stork (Ciconia stormi) Endangered Range: OR: Malay Pen., Sumatra, Mentawai and Pagai is. (w of c Sumatra) and Borneo
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba