Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Pantanal, Brazil, August.

Bird name: Jabiru
Latin: Jabiru mycteria
Other: Jabiru (Br) • Jabirú, tuyuyu (Es)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: Mexico to Argentina, esp Pantanal, Brazil.
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The Jabiru is a very large stork, emblematic of the Pantanal region of South America. The word is from the Guarani meaning swollen neck.

The nest is huge, several metres in each dimension. Each year returning Jabirus add a new layer. Smaller birds often nest underneath. In a photo below you might just make out three monk parakeets below the nest.

The nest contained one adult and two juvenile jabirus, pictured below, which lack the characteristic pink red neck of the adult. Great birds.

Otherwise individuals were seen regularly, often with herons, in the pools drying beside the Transpantaneira and at Curicaca Lodge and Pouso Alegre, where I also saw the large nest.

Below, 2 juvenile Jabirus in nest, Pouso Alegre Lodge, Pantanal, Brazil, August.


Below, Jabiru feeds passing its bill through the water and mud on bottom, Pantanal..


Below, the Jabiru nest is huge, several metres wide, with other birds nesting below.
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Bird name: Black Stork
Latin: Ciconia nigra
Other: Cigogne noire (Fr), Schwarzstorch (De), cigüeña negra (Es)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: Central Europe to China, migrating to tropical Africa, India
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A record shot of a Black Stork at the Camargue bird park.

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Bird name: Saddle Billed Stork
Latin: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
Other: Jabiru d'Afrique (Fr)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: Widespread Sub-Saharan Africa
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Thanks to Tom for adding these photos of the Saddle-billed Stork. A huge bird standing 1.50 high, wth a wingspan of 2.5m. Pictured above, a male, from the dark irises - females have yellow irises.More photos...

Copyright: monacoeye • Do not copy • Lagoa do Peixe, RS • November 2009

Bird name: Wood Stork
Latin: Mycteria americana
Other: Wood Ibis • Cabeça-seca (Br) • Tántalo Americano (Es)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: SE USA to N Argentina, incl Brazil, Pantanal etc
Similar: Maguari Stork, Jabiru

The Wood Stork is a large stork which lives in tropical and sub-tropical America, with a small population in south-eastern USA. These photos were taken in Rio Grande do Sul and the Pantanal.

It is distinguished from the Maguari Stork by its darker, heavier neck, head and bill, which is slightly curved, dark irises and dark legs. Wings are black and white.

Below, Wood Stork in flight in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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Bird name: White Stork
Latin: Ciconia ciconia
Other: Cigogne blanche (Fr), Weißstorch (De), cigüeña blanca (Es), cicogna bianca (It), cegonha-branca (Pt)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: France, Germany, Spain, E Europe to Africa. Also Asia.
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The White Stork is a large stork, seen here in rural wetlands in Romania and France.



Below, a White Stork in the nest at La Capelliere, Camargue, March.

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copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Serengeti, Oct 2009

Bird name: Marabou Stork
Latin: Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Other:
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range:
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The Marabou Stork is a huge bird, with a wingspan of about three and a half metres. It often scavenges at rubbish tips and at carcasses with vultures. This rather grizzly-looking bird is sometimes called the undertaker bird.

Marabou Storks are found in sub-Saharan Africa. André took these photos in Amboseli and Serengeti National Parks in east Africa.More photos...

Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Tanzania • Oct 2009

Bird name: African Openbill
Latin: Anastomus lamelligerus
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Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range:
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The bill of the African Openbill Stork does not close fully, but instead meets at the tip.

The African Openbill is one of a total of 19 species of stork. Seen here in Lake Victoria with Black-winged Stilts.


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Bird name: Maguari Stork
Latin: Ciconia maguari
Other: Maguari (Br) • Tuyango, Cigüeña americana, Tabuyayá (Es)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range:
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The Maguari Stork is a large stork which lives in South America. In Brazil it is principally found from Rio Grande do Sul to the Pantanal.

It has pink-red lores and yellow irises, the upper part of its bill is bluish and the lower part pink, legs are pink-red and wings black and white. The Wood Stork has a much blacker, heavy, dirty-looking head and bill.

Storks fly with their necks extended, which is also a quick way of differentiating them from egrets and herons, which generally fly with their necks retracted.

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Photo copyright: monacoeye.com • Danube Delta • May 2009 • Do not copy

Bird name: Squacco Heron
Latin: Ardeola ralloides
Other: Crabier Chevelu (Fr)
Family: Ardeidae • Herons, Storks & Ibises

Squacco Herons line many of the canals in Danube Delta.

Adults have blue beaks with black tips. Lores are sometimes bright green, presumably in courtship. Feet are yellow-orange and legs orange-pink becoming redder during courtship.

Plumage of juveniles and winter adults is strongly streaked around the neck. Legs are greenish and beaks less blue.More photos...

024 Ciconiidae • Storks - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Ciconiiformes includes only Storks (Ciconiidae).
Ibises and spoonbills (Threskiornithidae) and herons (Ardeidae) are Pelecaniformes.

Mycteria americana - Wood Stork - SE USA to N Argentina
Mycteria cinerea - Milky Stork - S Vietnam, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi
Mycteria ibis - Yellow-billed Stork - Widespread Africa
Mycteria leucocephala - Painted Stork - India, Southeast Asia

Anastomus oscitans - Asian Openbill - India, Southeast Asia
Anastomus lamelligerus - African Openbill - Widespread Africa

Ciconia nigra - Black Stork - Widespread Africa, Eurasia - N Asia
Ciconia abdimii - Abdim's Stork - SE Africa - E, C, w
Ciconia episcopus - Woolly-necked Stork - Widespread Africa, Asia
Ciconia stormi - Storm's Stork - Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo
Ciconia maguari - Maguari Stork - Widespread South America
Ciconia ciconia - White Stork - Europe - Africa, India
Ciconia boyciana - Oriental Stork - E Eurasia - SE China

Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus - Black-necked Stork - India to Australia
Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis - Saddle-billed Stork - Widespread Africa

Jabiru mycteria - Jabiru - S Mexico to N Argentina

Leptoptilos javanicus - Lesser Adjutant - Widespread Asia
Leptoptilos dubius - Greater Adjutant - N India
Leptoptilos crumeniferus - Marabou Stork - Widespread Africa