Wood Stork Florida
Cypress domes and strands wet prairies scrub cypress fresh water marshes and sloughs and sawgrass marshes.
Wood stork florida. Wood Stork Florida Stock Photos and Images 1741 Narrow your search. Wood Stork Mycteria americana in flight Orlando Orange County Florida USA. Five categories of wetlands have been identified as important wood stork feeding areas.
Females lay a single clutch of two to five eggs per season US. Breeding population of wood stork woodstork. The Wood Stork is the generally accepted name for this Floridian wading bird although due to the appearance of its head and upper neck you may also hear of it being called Ironhead or Flinthead.
Wood storks are tall white denizens of freshwater or brackish wetlands and swamps. Includes data on core foreging areas - including shapefiles nesting and productivity. Wood storks have been observed feeding on walking catfish in drying ditches in south Florida and on marine catfish being discharged from a dredge.
North Florida Ecological Services Office. These estuarine zones are also an important feeding habitat for the nesting birds. Wood Stork takes off at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on March 12 2009 in Merritt Island Florida.
Page 1 of 18. Historically wood storks in South Florida established breeding colonies primarily in large stands of bald cypress Taxodium distichum and red mangrove Rhizophora mangle. Wood storks have long blackgray legs and very unusual looking pinkish feet.
Fish Wildlife Service 1999. In Florida wood storks are capable of laying eggs from October to June Rodgers 1990. Vectors Black white.