Wood Stork in a dark lagoon, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida

Wood Stork Images, Facts and Information:

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  • Wood Storks are large, white wading birds with long legs, long curved bills, black flight feathers and their heads are black and bald.
  • Breeding Wood Storks are found in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina and in some areas of the Caribbean, and Mexico. Wood Storks are also found in Central and South America.
  • Wood Storks are found in cypress swamps, freshwater and saltwater estuaries,  bottomland hardwood swamps, wetlands, flooded agricultural  fields.
  • Wood Storks eat fish, frogs, tadpoles, crayfish and crabs.
  • Wood Storks lay 2 to 5 white eggs which hatch in 27 to 32 days. Both sexes incubate, they are monogamous and colonial nesters.
  • A group of Wood Storks can be called a “swoop” of storks.
  • Wood Storks can live to be more than 20 years old.

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