Ciconiiformes: Storks
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. There are 19 species world wide, and 2 North American species.
- Wood Stork, Mycteria americana (only population in S. FL)
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“The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun’s right hand.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)