Painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala), India (Photograph by Rahula Perera). From Wordnik.com. [Orissa semi-evergreen forests] Reference
Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus. From Wordnik.com. [Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania] Reference
Mycteria (wood storks), for example, has a gently down-curved bill, a particularly dense array of Herbst corpuscles, and muscles that allow the jaws to be closed within 25 milliseconds (one of the fastest reflexes among vertebrates). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Other large waterbirds including painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala), spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis), and black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus), which probably formerly bred, are annual visitors, probably entering the country from Cambodia. From Wordnik.com. [Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests] Reference
Also a great variety of tropical marine birds including rufescent tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), wood stork (Mycteria americana), and horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) are just a few species present in this ecoregion, not to mention invertebrates such as shrimp, crabs and mollusks. From Wordnik.com. [Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves] Reference
The Painted Stork, Mycteria leucocephala, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say] Reference
Mycteria cinerea occurs only in Cambodia, Peninsular Malaysia and the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sumbawa, Sulawesi and Buton, Indonesia. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Birds] Reference
Approximately 280 species of aquatic birds also depend on the habitat provided by mangroves and their surroundings for feeding purposes including cormorant (Phalacrocorax spp.), wood stork (Mycteria americana), boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearia), white egret (Egretta alba egretta), and snowy egret (Egretta thula). From Wordnik.com. [Ría Lagartos mangroves] Reference
We saw a Tabiroo (Mycteria) and a rifle bird. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Stork, Wood Mycteria americana 81, 132, 192. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Characteristic species of this mangrove ecoregion include birds such as the keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), Townsend’s solitaire (Myadestes towsendi), bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum), tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor), reddish egret (Egretta rugescens), jabiru (Jabiru Mycteria), wood stork (Mycteria americana), swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus), zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonatus), amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona), prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea). From Wordnik.com. [Alvarado mangroves] Reference
About 5,000 white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus nest here regularly, as well as pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, common cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo, white-breasted cormorant P. lucidus, African darter Anhinga rufa, night heron Nycticorax nycticorax, squacco herons Ardeola spp., green heron Butorides striatus, various egrets Egretta spp., purple heron Ardea purpurea, grey heron Ardea cinerea, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus, glossy ibis Plegardis falcinellus, African spoonbill Platalea alba, white-faced tree duck Dendrocygna viduata, fulvus tree duck D. bicolor, spur-winged goose Plectropterus gambensis, and Sudan bustard Otis arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal] Reference
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