0:00 / Wood stork (call) call. Jabiru. Although this stork doesn't bring babies, it is a good flier, soaring on thermals with neck and legs outstretched. This bald-headed wading bird stands just over 3 feet tall, towering above almost all other wetland birds. Although this stork doesn't bring babies, it is a good flier, soaring on thermals with neck and legs outstretched. Wood stork. The only stork and the largest wading bird that breeds in the United States, the Wood Stork is a distinctive wetland bird found primarily in the Southeast. This bald-headed wading bird stands just over 3 feet tall, towering above almost all other wetland birds. The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Paul Marvin Heather Paul. It stands a meter tall, and has a dark, featherless head and upper neck, as well as white plumage, with dark iridescent wing- and tail feathers. However, the bird reacts almost immediately, snapping its beak at the alligators and forcing a hasty retreat. Large, white Wood Storks wade through southeastern swamps and wetlands. call. Flies with slow wingbeats, and flocks often soar very high on warm days. The video starts with one of the alligators climbing on to a wooden platform, in an attempt to bite the stork. Our only native stork in North America, a very large, heavy-billed bird that wades in the shallows of southern swamps. That clicking sound you hear is his beak,” said the post. In South America, it is resident, but in North America, it may disperse to as far as South America. Small alligators are feisty no doubt but still very vulnerable to a gigantic wood stork. It is found in subtropical and tropical habitats in the Americas, including the Caribbean.
It was formerly called the "wood ibis", though it is not an ibis.
Large, white Wood Storks wade through southeastern swamps and wetlands. Young Wood Storks have noisy begging calls, but adults are almost silent except for hissing and bill clappering. Other storks.