Wood storks always plan their breeding season around a time when there will be plenty of food. They need over four hundred pounds of fish during a single breeding season to feed themselves and their babies. Wetland drying seasons help the wood storks feed their babies. When lakes dry up and shrink, all the fish have to live in smaller ponds where they are easier for the wood stork parents to catch. Wood storks make their nests in the tops of tall trees, and they live in colonies.
Colonies are areas where several stork families live together.
They build their nests out of moss, vines, and twigs. Wood storks usually lay 4 or 5 eggs, and the babies hatch in about 30 days. If two babies from each nest can survive, the colony has had a successful breeding season. The babies are fed up to 15 times a day for the first eight weeks, and when they are nine weeks old, they can live on their own. The parents will watch over the nest and take turns hunting for food.