A Wood Stork at Cove Cay in Florida
by L Bosco
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A Wood Stork at Cove Cay in Florida
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L Bosco
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The Florida Wood Stork is a fairly large bird. In Florida there are many white wading birds. The birds tend to gather in flocks of other white birds near many of our local ponds. The eat small fish, turtles and lizards. According to the Audubon Society these used to be mainly inhabitants of South Florida, but are now more common in Central Florida. This photo was taken at Cove Cay Golf Course near Clearwater Florida. Our only native stork in North America, it is a very large, heavy-billed bird that wades in the shallows of southern swamps. (Though this one was on the golf course off of Tampa Bay) It flies with slow wingbeats, and flocks often soar very high on warm days. Young Wood Storks have noisy begging calls, but adults are almost silent except for hissing and bill clappering.
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July 18th, 2020
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