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 LC    Wood Stork* Id (Atlas):
    Mycteria americana

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Wood Stork, Wood Ibis

Family
Ciconiidae (Storks)

Size
102 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Habitat
Wetlands. From sea-level - 800 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (NB), USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Dominica, Jamaica.

South-eastern states of USA, Mexico through central and southern America to northern Argentina.
 
Population
Estimated population is 38,000 - 130,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) [XC139206]
     by Paul Marvin from Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States (alarm call)

 
Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) [XC197030]
     by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from La Verde, Estancia El Cutal, Beni Department, Bolivia (begging call, flight call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) - 10 files


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