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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oriental white storks migrate, with their breeding grounds mainly in Russia's Far East and northeastern China, and their ...