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	Wood Stork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.
		The Wood Stork is a broad-winged soaring bird that flies with its neck outstretched and legs extended.
		The Wood Stork walks slowly and steadily in shallow water up to its belly in open wetlands seeking its prey, which, like that of most of its relatives, consists of fish, frogs and large insects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wood_Stork (298 words)

	Everglades National Park Wood Storks
		In this case, the bird is the wood stork, and the environment is the Florida Everglades.
		The stork's indicator role as been dramatically demonstrated, as total numbers of all species of wading birds nesting in mainland Everglades colonies have also dropped during this same 30 years from an estimated 40,000 to 9,000 pairs.
		While the storks have been chronicling the deterioration in the ecosystem, at the same time they are providing information that is needed for the system's restoration.
	www.nps.gov /ever/eco/wdstork.htm (735 words)

	Wildlife on Little St. Simons Island, Georgia
		Wood Storks can be seen feeding in water depths of six to ten inches, using their large, dark decurved bill to catch fish.
		Wood Storks are colonial nesters, and a Wood Stork rookery typically consists of 5 - 25 nests.
		Wood Storks may not rival the beauty of other birds in the wading clan; however, they represent an important part of the ecosystem.
	www.littlestsimonsisland.com /pages/woodstork.html (352 words)

	Wood Stork
		Standing nearly four feet tall and weighing up to seven pounds, the wood stork is all white except for its short fl tail and fl feathers that punctuate the end of its wings.
		Wood storks feed by wading in water between 10 and 20 inches deep.
		Wood stork populations in southern Florida have been declining for the past 60 years because of widespread habitat damage, particularly the drainage of wetlands.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/5960/woodstrk.html (382 words)

	AllRefer.com - stork (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		The storks are related to the herons and ibises and are found in most of the warmer parts of the world.
		Storks have long, broad, powerful wings; in flight they flap their wings or soar with their legs dangling and their long necks bent back in an S shape.
		The only storks found in the Americas are the American wood stork, previously known as the wood ibis, a white bird about 4 ft (122 cm) long with a glossy greenish-fl tail, found in temperate and tropical regions; and the jabiru, of the tropics, with a white-and-fl body and naked fl head.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/stork.html (362 words)

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		The wood stork is a large,mostly white, long legged wading bird found in freshwater and coastal marshes in the southeastern United States,Mexico and Central and South America.
		Wood storks are gregarious,usually living in small to quite large flocks,but nest in monogamous pairs.
		Wood storks are widespread in Central and South America,but declined sharply in the United States from the early 1900's until very recently when the population stabilized at alarmingly low numbers.
	www.wesave.org /stork/wood.htm (276 words)

	Wood Stork
		The wood stork is the largest wading bird and the only nesting stork in the United States.
		Wood storks usually feed in water 6 to 10 inches deep using a technique called grope-feeding, or tactile feeding.
		Wood storks begin breeding at about 4 years of age and pairs often mate for life.
	www.dmcphoto.com /phchuah/WoodstorkPage1.html (293 words)

	Wildlife Viewing - Species Spotlight - Wood Stork
		Tall and long-legged, the wood stork is the largest wading bird native to America.
		Wood storks fly with neck and legs extended, interrupting strong wing beats with brief glides; their wingspan is 5 1/2 feet.
		Wood storks usually feed within 16 miles of their colony but often fly great distances in search of feeding grounds, sometimes as much as 60-80 miles.
	www.floridaconservation.org /viewing/species/woodstork.htm (339 words)

	Wood Storks (Mycteria americana)
		The wood stork, also known as wood ibis or flint head, is one of the largest wading birds found in Florida and the only stork in the United States.
		The wood stork's body is white except for a short fl tail and fl feathers that border the wings (Figure 1).
		Wood storks are wetland dwellers and use fresh, brackish, and salt water habitats for feeding and nesting.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /UW065 (1048 words)

	ACE Basin Species Gallery: Wood Stork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wood storks are some of the largest wading birds inhabiting South Carolina.
		Wood storks are not very vocal birds, except when they are around their nest; adults make low croaking sounds, and young make rattling noises with their beaks.
		As of the summer of 1997, the nesting population of wood storks in the state was over 950 pairs.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /acebasin/specgal/woodstor.htm (517 words)

	Wood Stork Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Wood Stork, or "Wood Ibis" as it was formerly called, is the only stork to regularly occur and breed in the United States.
		Wood Storks can be found feeding in shallow water in both freshwater and coastal wetlands, including tidal creeks and flats, marshes, cypress swamps, ponds, ditches, and flooded fields.
		In 1984, the Wood Stork was listed as an Endangered species (USFWS 1984) by the federal government, a status assigned to the bird by the state of Florida several years earlier.
	www.wildflorida.org /bba/wost.htm (557 words)

	Wood Stork Nesting Population (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Given its dependence on a high quality coastal habitat and its status as an endangered species, the wood stork is important as an indicator of the state’s coastal environmental health and the declining abundance of coastal habitat.
		A decline of wood stork nests in Florida’s coastal counties may be indicative of changing environmental conditions such as rising water levels, loss of nesting substrate, or fluc tuations in the food supply.
		Of the thirteen coastal counties that had wood stork nests present in either 1993 or 1994, nine coastal counties had a decrease in the number of nests and four had an increase.
	www.pepps.fsu.edu /FACT/sec_D/stork.html (406 words)

	Georgia DNR, Coastal Resources Division - Wood Stork
		The wood stork is the only true stork (family Ciconiidae) that regularly occurs in the U.S. Wood storks breed in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina with colonies having been documented in 13 counties along the coast and across southern Georgia.
		The wood stork is a large, long-legged wading bird about 33-44 inches in height with a wingspan of 59-65 inches, and a large, down-curved bill.
		Wood storks use a variety of freshwater and estuarine wetlands for breeding, feeding, and roosting.
	crd.dnr.state.ga.us /content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=618 (333 words)

	Wood Stork Research
		Wood Storks (Mycteria americana) are large wading birds that typically feed on fish in shallow wetlands.
		SREL stork studies initially focused on the Birdsville breeding colony in Jenkins County, GA, which was thought to be the source of the storks commonly observed on the SRS.
		Analyses of foraging flights from the Birdsville colony suggested that storks rarely traveled as far as the SRS to feed during the breeding season, and that late-summer/early fall use of SRS wetlands was more common after the birds dispersed from their breeding colonies.
	www.uga.edu /srel/Fact_Sheets/wood_storks.htm (860 words)

	FPL \| Wood Stork Behaviors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A pair of wood storks needs about 440 pounds of fish during a breeding season to feed themselves and their young.
		Young wood storks must be fledged before the summer rains begin and the fish disperse.
		Wood storks nest in the treetops of cypress or mangrove swamps and, more recently, man-made impoundments.
	www.fpl.com /environment/endangered/contents/wood_stork_behaviors.shtml (447 words)

	Birds of the St. Johns - Wood Stork
		Wood Storks are large wading birds with featherless heads and white plumage with fl tips on the wings.
		Wood Storks feed in shallow ponds, marshes and ditches and rely on touch to catch their food.
		A Wood Stork family will need nearly 500 pounds of fish to raise their young during breeding season, so they breed when the wetlands are in the best cycle to provide enough food.
	www.marshbunny.com /mbunny/wildlife/birds/woodstork.html (242 words)

	Endangered Species - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		General Description: The wood stork is locally known as "the flinthead" because of its gray-fl, featherless head.
		The wood stork's body is white; the tail and trailing edges of the wings are fl.
		Storks are birds of freshwater and brackish wetlands, primarily nesting in cypress or mangrove swamps, and feeding in freshwater marshes, flooded pastures and flooded ditches.
	www.sas.usace.army.mil /bwoodstk.htm (269 words)

	Wood Stork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wood storks are wading birds that feed on small fish.
		Wood storks are highly colonial, living in large rookeries.
		Wood storks nest in the highest branches of cypress and mangrove trees.
	www.saveamericasforests.org /speciespages/woodstork.htm (140 words)

	Wood Stork Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wood storks are the largest wading birds that breed in North America; they nest 60 feet off the ground in cypress trees in wetland areas of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.
		Adult wood storks stand about three feet tall, are bald and make no noise except to clatter their heavy, dark bills.
		While wood storks spend the winters in south Georgia and Florida, they depend on rainfall in their summer feeding areas because it sets the conditions for the reproduction of fish.
	www.uga.edu /srel/stork.htm (683 words)

	Complete Guide to Wood Storks
		Although it is fully protected by law, the Wood Stork still has a long way ahead of it on the road to recovery.
		Immature Wood Storks (Immature birds are those that are not yet adults, kind of like the teenagers of the bird world) often have a duller look to their feathers and sometimes have a yellowish bill.
		The feeding areas of the Wood Stork are shallows, which are often destroyed by human altering of the wetlands.
	members.aol.com /Lowell7777/Stork.html (579 words)

	State: Wood stork nesting pairs on rise
		DAYTONA BEACH - Wildlife officials are encouraged by an increase in the number of federally protected wood storks counted in the southeastern United States, but a lag in the number of births per nest is concerning some biologists.
		With snow-white waders, elongated fl bills and scaly gray heads, wood storks once graced the Everglades in large colonies, and officials said there were more than 20,000 nesting pairs in the 1930s.
		In Florida this year, observers counted more than 6,000 nesting pairs of wood storks, and the number of nesting pairs in the southeastern United States is nearing 9,000, the wildlife service said.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/28/State/Wood_stork_nesting_pa.shtml (450 words)

	CESI Project Page-Wood Stork Nesting Surveys in Big Cypress National Preserve
		That year, observations of extensive wood stork activity prompted the need for a systematic survey to determine whether storks were merely using the area for foraging or whether nesting was occurring.
		The high water levels throughout 1994 and 1995, followed by the rapid dry-down in the spring of 1996, apparently concentrated prey in areas accessible to wood storks and provided conditions conducive to nesting.
		When wood storks are observed either roosting or nesting, the number of storks and nests will be estimated and the location will be stored in a Trimble Pathfinder Basic Plus (Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, Calif.) global positioning system.
	fl.water.usgs.gov /cesi/jd_woodstorknesting_proj.htm (1334 words)

	Stork at exZOOberance!
		The only birds of the stork family that inhabit North America are the wood stork, formerly called wood ibis, found in the southern United States, and the jabiru, which occurs from southern Mexico to Argentina.
		The wood stork is about 1 m (about 3.5 ft) long, with a fl head and bare neck; the wings and tail are partly fl, and the rest of the plumage is white.
		The white stork is classified as Ciconia ciconia, the fl stork as Ciconia nigra, and the maguari stork as Ciconia maguari.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20fly/stork/stork.htm (446 words)

	Learn About Real Storks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The best-known stork, the white stork, lives in parts of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa in the summer and in Africa, northern India, and southern China in the winter.
		The wood stork, formerly called the wood ibis, is the only true stork native to the United States.
		The number of wood storks in Florida declined dramatically during the mid-1900's, mainly because of loss of swamp lands where the birds fed.
	www.signofthestork.com /realstorks.htm (305 words)

	Hall of Texas Wetlands - Wood Stork Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Wood Stork feeds in prairie ponds, flooded pastures or fields, standing water in ditches and sometimes in saltwater.
		The Wood Stork has few natural enemies, as their plumage is not attractive for ornamental use, and they are not good for eating.
		The adult stork is practically voiceless, but will make a hissing sound when relieving each other on the nest, etc. The young stork is very noisy and utters high-pitched nasal sounds almost constantly.
	www.dallasdino.org /exhibits/wetlands_hall/wood_stork.asp (472 words)

	Auk, The: Low levels of genetic variability in North American populations of the Wood Stork (Mycteria Americana)
		In agreement with previous studies, we recommend that all colonies of Wood Storks in the southeastern United States be managed on a regional basis as a single interbreeding population.
		THE WOOD STORK (Mycteria americana) is a colonial-nesting wading bird of the tropical and lower subtropical zones of the Americas.
		Wood Stork breeding colonies are convenient management units for conservation because of their discrete geographic delineation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199910/ai_n8866401 (1271 words)

	Wood Stork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the United States, Wood Storks are found exclusively in the southeastern States.
		Wood Storks hunt by touch rather than sight, feeling prey with their beak and feet.
		In the 1980’s, the Wood Stork was declared an endangered species when the number of breeding pairs dropped to below 5000.
	www.pelicanman.org /html/pmbs3_171.htm (79 words)

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		In a time when most wading birds are increasing in numbers or at least stabilizing, wood storks, this continent's only stork, continue to decline.
		Wood storks and some of the waders that are specific in the type of food they eat are having problems."
		He said the key to ensuring the future of wood storks is land preservation and restoration.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=WOODSTORKS-01-08-02&cat=AN (498 words)

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