Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) ST. PETERSBURG — The ungainly yet graceful wood stork ...

The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction ... U.S. wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed removing the wading bird from the endangered species list.

The gangly wood stork, with its long legs and bald head ... where decades of ditching and draining left the storks and other wading birds in big trouble, storks now nest across the Southeast ...

Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough ... One bird Cook pays particular attention to is the wood stork, because it's foraging and nesting behavior relies on historic water patterns.

The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction ... U.S. wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed removing the wading bird from the endangered species list.

Related: What’s the deal with wood storks? Meet Florida’s strange, scaly wading birds In addition, the wood stork has increased its range in coastal areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and ...

Wood storks, Mycteria americana, are large wading birds with distinctively bald heads and long, down-curved bills, which helps to make them easily recognizable. A Wood Stork pauses in its search ...

It is a cool morning in March and I am wading along a muddy path ... "We sometimes describe this as stork headquarters," says biologist Laura Vaughan-Hirsch, gesturing at the nests around us.