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Stork. A marabou stork stands on grassy ground with distant green hills and blue sky in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Abdim's stork Wood stork (Mycteria americana). Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis).
White storks' annual return to a Croatian village
Illustration of a wood stork (Mycteria americana), a large wading bird with a long, thick, slightly curved bill, white body, bare dark head and neck, and long legs. Several painted storks, Mycteria leucocephala, with orange beaks and black-and-white wings, perch among dense green branches at the National Zoological Park in Delhi, India.
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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
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turkey vulture. vulture. Close-up of a head and beak of a Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
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Stork: References & Edit History

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Article History

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Article title updated for style. Nov 12, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at University of South Florida - Spread-wing Postures and Their Possible Functions in the Ciconiidae (PDF). May 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Oiseaux-birds - Family Ciconiidae - Storks. Nov 27, 2024
Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Stork. Aug 08, 2022
Add new Web site: Live Science - What's Behind the Myth That Storks Deliver Babies? Aug 08, 2022
Media added. May 24, 2016
Added video. May 21, 2015
Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - The Stork. May 07, 2014
Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - Wildlife - Stork Bird. May 07, 2014
Add new Web site: Animal Planet - Stork. Sep 10, 2013
Add new Web site: IndiaNetzone - Stork. Sep 10, 2013
Add new Web site: Creagrus - Stork. Sep 10, 2013
Add new Web site: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Animal and Plant - Stork. Sep 10, 2013
Added photograph. Nov 01, 2011
Updated species count. Feb 26, 2010
Added image of wood stork. Nov 25, 2009
Added new Web site: Animal Trial - Stork Bird. Jan 14, 2009
Added new Web site: Illinois Wildflowers - Buffalo Grass - Buchloe dactyloides. Jan 14, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Stork. May 26, 2008
Media added. Oct 09, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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