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Wood Stork

Mycteria americana

The Wood Stork is a tall, wading bird with long legs and a big beak. They like to stand in shallow water and catch fish with their beaks. These birds are very graceful when they fly!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Wood Stork is a large, white wading bird with dark gray to black flight feathers. It has an unfeathered, dark grayish-black head and neck, and a long, thick, downcurved bill. Its legs are pinkish.

ReichAnimaliaStammChordataKlasseAvesOrdnungCiconiiformesFamilieCiconiidaeGattungMycteria

Wood Stork

Kategorie

Vögel

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

Mach den ersten Snap!

Interessante Fakten

Baby storks are born with soft, downy feathers covering their heads, which disappear as they grow.

Their extra-long, sensitive bills can snap shut on fish in less than 25 milliseconds!

They use a "foot-stirring" dance in shallow water to flush out hidden prey!

Wood Storks don't sing; they hiss and clatter their bills to talk to each other!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Wood Storks can find prey in murky water by feeling with their sensitive bills, which snap shut incredibly fast.

Wood Storks have broad wings that help them ride warm air currents, allowing long-distance flight with little effort.

Wood Storks have a unique ability to cool down by letting their droppings run down their legs.

Maße und Details

Länge: 83-115 cm
Flügelspannweite: 150-180 cm
Gewicht: 2-4.5 kg
Lebenserwartung: 11-18 Jahre
Top Speed: 50 km/h
Gelegegröße: 2-5
Brutzeit: 27-32 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

They mostly eat small fish and other aquatic creatures by feeling for them in the water.

Hauptnahrung

small fish
frogs
tadpoles
crayfish
aquatic insects

Nahrungssuche

Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

American Alligator

Alligator mississippiensis

Alligators sometimes prey on their eggs and young chicks.

eaten by

Raccoon

Procyon lotor

Raccoons are known to raid nests for eggs and young storks.

hunts

Eastern Mosquitofish

Gambusia holbrooki

They effectively hunt small mosquitofish in shallow water.

hunts

Southern Leopard Frog

Lithobates sphenocephalus

Commonly eats frogs and tadpoles found in wetlands.

shelters

Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum

Often build their nests high in bald cypress trees.

Merkmale

Gefiedert

Gefiedert beschreibt Tiere, hauptsächlich Vögel, die ein Federkleid besitzen.

Sozial

Soziale Tiere leben in organisierten Gruppen und kooperieren, um ihr Überleben zu sichern, beispielsweise bei der Nahrungssuche, Verteidigung und Aufzucht der Jungen.

Filtrierer

Filtrierer nehmen Nährstoffe auf, indem sie schwebende Nahrungspartikel und kleine Organismen aus dem Wasser filtern.

Fischfressend

Fischfressende Organismen sind Tiere, die sich hauptsächlich von Fisch ernähren.

Feuchtgebiet

Dieses Lebensraummerkmal kennzeichnet Arten, die in Feuchtgebieten vorkommen. Dies sind Landflächen, die dauerhaft oder saisonal mit Wasser gesättigt sind, darunter Marschland, Sümpfe und Moore.