Wood Stork

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Wood Stork | The Wood Stork is the only stork that breeds in North America currently. United States, there is a small breeding population and endangered in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. The stork is a bird of the Wood stretched flying wing outstretched neck and legs. It feeds mostly where lowering water levels concentrate fish in the open wetlands, but also frequents rice fields. Catch fish under his account with water until the fish is found. The danger Wood Stork leads to rescue the small rural town of Colquitt, Georgia. The plans include a new bridge over Spring Creek and the surrounding wetlands Colquitt. However, requires the residence of the Wood Stork in the swamp forests of southwestern Georgia, use that the Department of Transportation, the existing bridge in Colquitt.

A resident breeder in lowland wetlands with trees, the wood stork builds a large stick nest in a tree in the forest. They nest in colonies of up to 25 nests in a tree. Reproductive cycle of wood storks "is activated when the wells dry enough to keep the fish in sufficient numbers to focus an efficient feeding chicks. competition for food is fierce, and when food is scarce, survive only girl. weeks chicks fed 15 times per day, and growing. During the breeding season, need wood storks more than 400 pounds (180 kg) of fish to feed themselves and their young. If youth are 4 weeks old, the parents leave the nest in search of food, and this is continued until the chicks leave "farm" or the nest. A colony is considered successful when their parents developed an average of at least 1.5 young per nest

Every adult in nest defense against predators more. Crows, vultures, starlings and striped skunks try eggs Raccoons are collecting the most important nest predators, and can cause the failure of the colony almost complete when the water dries under nests in dry years because they can easily access the nest with dry soil under the tree. A fossil fragment Touro Passo Formation Arroio found Touro Passo (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) could creatures, but possibly from the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 s of years. North American fossils from this time are of a larger report from Mr. wetmorei.  

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