page_title: List of birds of North America (other orders)
section_title: Storks
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of North America (other orders) / Storks
caption_attribution_description: English: A Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) feeds on the shore. Cropped from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System http://images.fws.gov/default.cfm?fuseaction=records.display&amp;id=101EFD0E%2D9D48%2D46EB%2DAFC4E976036864C7 Creator: Ryan Hagerty &#160;&#160;&#160;DescriptionAmerican photographer and videographerwith the United States Fish and Wildlife ServiceWork periodafter 1996 date QS:P,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9Work location United States of AmericaAuthority control : Q28112513 creator QS:P170,Q28112513 Source: WV-Pelican Island-11623 Publisher: en:U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge Contributor: NATIONAL CONSERVATION TRAINING CENTER-PUBLICATIONS AND TRAINING MATERIALS Subject: Bird, wading, Pelican Island NWR, en:Florida, en:endangered species Abstract: Endangered wood stork feeds on the shore at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida. Available: March 08 2003 Issued: March 08 2003 Modified: May 10 2004
context_page_description: The birds listed below are found in North America and belong to a taxonomic order outside of the scope of ordinarily encountered orders.
context_section_description: Order: Ciconiiformes   Family: Ciconiidae
  Storks are large, heavy, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long stout bills and wide wingspans. They lack the powder down that other wading birds such as herons, spoonbills and ibises use to clean off fish slime. Storks lack a pharynx and are mute.
  Jabiru, Jabiru mycteria LC
  Wood stork, Mycteria americana LC E
  Maguari stork, Ciconia maguari (A)
caption: Wood stork
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