wood stork (Mycteria americana) Description Mycteria americana - common wood stork
Date 1903
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Author Bell, John Graham.; Chapman, Frank M.; Jasper, Theodore.; Natural science association of America (New York, N.Y.); Studer, Jacob Henry; Studer, Jacob Henry; Studer, Jacob Henry; Studer, Jacob Henry
Full title The birds of North America : one hundred and nineteen artistic colored plates representing the different species and varieties drawn and colored from nature : including a copious text giving a popular account of their habits and characteristics, based on observations made in the field by the most eminent writers on ornithology : prefaced by a systematic table and index to page, plate and figure /
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The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the "wood ibis", though it is not an ibis.