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    wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks). Originally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, this stork is...
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    Brazil) might be of the living wood stork M. americana; it is at most of Late Pleistocene age, a few 10,000s of years. Storks range in size from the marabou...
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    only three New World stork species, together with the wood stork and the jabiru. The maguari stork was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist...
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    snails. Storks are threatened by habitat loss, pesticide use, and intentional hunting. Four species of stork—the milky stork, oriental stork, greater...
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    the American wood stork. Juvenile Mycteria storks are duller versions of the adults, generally browner and with paler bills. These storks are gregarious...
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    Jabiru (redirect from Jabiru stork)
    The jabiru (/ˌdʒæbɪˈruː/ or /ˈdʒæbɪruː/; Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It...
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    yellow-billed stork lies within the genus Mycteria along with three other extant species: the wood stork (M. americana), the milky stork (M. cinerea) and...
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    The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wader in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the...
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    that flies upside-down, may have been inspired by observations of the wood stork, a bird that has been witnessed briefly flying in this manner. In particular...
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    The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae native to sub-Saharan Africa. It breeds in both wet and...
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