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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!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

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.

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Wood Stork

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Aves

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

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.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud: 83-115 cm
Envergadura: 150-180 cm
Peso: 2-4.5 kg
Esperanza de vida: 11-18 años
Top Speed: 50 km/h
Tamaño de la puesta: 2-5
Incubación: 27-32 días

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

small fish
frogs
tadpoles
crayfish
aquatic insects

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

Con plumas

Describe a los animales, principalmente aves, que poseen una cubierta de plumas.

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.

Filtrador

Los filtradores obtienen nutrientes filtrando partículas de alimentos suspendidos y pequeños organismos del agua.

Piscívoro

Los organismos piscívoros son animales que subsisten principalmente de una dieta a base de peces.

Humedal

Este rasgo de hábitat identifica especies que se encuentran en humedales, que son áreas de tierra saturadas de agua, ya sea permanente o estacionalmente, e incluyen marismas, pantanos y ciénagas.

Diurno

Los animales diurnos están activos principalmente durante el día y suelen descansar o dormir por la noche.

Migratorio

Los animales migratorios emprenden movimientos estacionales de una región a otra, típicamente en respuesta a cambios en el clima o la disponibilidad de alimentos.