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Have you ever noticed these huge white birds with scaly-looking heads in SC? Here’s what to know

Hilton Head Island Packet
Wood storks, Mycteria americana, are large wading birds with distinctively bald heads and long, down-curved bills, which helps to make them easily recognizable.
9 months ago

Costa Rica Birding: Meet the Wood Stork

The Tico Times
The world of birds is similar to the worlds of cars and celebrities, the pretty ones often get the headlines. Today's bird is not reaching...
4 months ago

BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – SMORGASBIRDS IN BOTH YUCATAN PENINSULA AND BELIZE, PART 3 of 3, MEDIUM TO LARGER, MORE OR LESS

The Yucatan Times
PHOTO SLIDER and #1 Great-tailed Grackle with water background Part 3 of 3 illustrates more feathered friends in two countries with a shared...
7 months ago

Service Proposes Delisting the Wood Stork

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (.gov)
WASHINGTON – Achieving a major conservation milestone following decades of conservation and large-scale restoration work, the Department of...
21 months ago

Myrtle Beach SC | Wood Stork (Mycteria Americana)

Grand Strand Magazine
Myrtle Beach SC - This large wading bird can be spotted year-round, but is most likely to be observed from spring to late fall.
82 months ago

Hot Dogs, Chicken Wings and City Living Helped Wood Storks Thrive

Florida Atlantic University
A study of wetland birds shows city storks did better than their non-urban counterparts when natural marshes are in bad shape.
51 months ago

First Fossil Stork – Montbrook Fossil Dig

Florida Museum of Natural History
The fossil found is a tarsometatarsus which is an elongated bone in birds between the foot and lower leg bones. It's somewhat equivalent to our ankle area but...
15 months ago

Urohidrosis as an overlooked cooling mechanism in long-legged birds

Nature
Behavioural thermoregulation could buffer the impacts of climate warming on vertebrates. Specifically, the wetting of body surfaces and the...
38 months ago

Open-billed stork | bird

Britannica
Two open-billed storks, openbills, or shell storks, Anastomus lamelligerus of tropical Africa and A. oscitans of southern Asia, are small storks that eat water...
2 weeks ago

Wood Stork

| Outdoor Alabama
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Mycteria americana (Linnaeus) OTHER NAMES: Flinthead, Ironhead, Pond Gannet, Wood Ibis (Coulter et al. 1999). STATUS: Possible breeder.
80 months ago