Stork: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Ciconiidae

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A marabou stork stands on grassy ground with distant green hills and blue sky in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

Wood stork (Mycteria americana).

Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis).

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.

White storks' annual return to a Croatian village

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Mycteria americana African wood stork wood stork open-billed stork white stork Abdim’s stork Anastomus oscitans Anastomus lamelligerus lesser adjutant stork adjutant stork

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