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Wood Stork
Photo taken in Sweetwater Wetlands Park.
The wood stork is primarily a tactile feeder, holding its large bill open under water, moving it about, and snapping it shut when it feels a fish or other animal touch its lower mandible. It gets fish to move by moving its brightly colored feet under the water.
Most wood storks live in South America, but significant numbers live in Central America, the Caribbean, and in the states of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina in the USA (where there are about 10,000 breeding pairs).
This information is from a variety of sources, including the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.)
Wood Stork
Photo taken in Sweetwater Wetlands Park.
The wood stork is primarily a tactile feeder, holding its large bill open under water, moving it about, and snapping it shut when it feels a fish or other animal touch its lower mandible. It gets fish to move by moving its brightly colored feet under the water.
Most wood storks live in South America, but significant numbers live in Central America, the Caribbean, and in the states of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina in the USA (where there are about 10,000 breeding pairs).
This information is from a variety of sources, including the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.)