Storks
Order: Ciconiiformes. Family: Threskiornithidae
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 is 1 New Jersey species.
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of New Jersey
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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)