Birds of the World


Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) Range: NA, MA, SA: se USA to n Argentina Green Cay Nature Center, Delray Beach, Florida, USA Unmistakable. Note featherless neck except on immature.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Wood Storks are found in wetlands and are often seen stirring up the ground underwater with their feet when searching for prey. Wood Storks sometimes soar overhead.
An active nest with young chicks.
Returning to nest with nesting material.
An active nest with older chicks.


Milky Stork (Mycteria cinerea) Endangered Range: OR, AU: c Cambodia, w Malay Pen., Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi Sungai Buloh Wetlands Reserve, Singapore
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.


Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis) Range: AF: widespread s of the Sahara Lake Nakuru, Kenya
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.


Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) Range: OR: India and se Asia Pak Thale, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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