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The range map depicts the boundary of the species' range, defined as the areas where the species is estimated to occur within at least one week within each season. Draw a shape on the map to generate a summary table or chart for that custom area of interest.
This bald-headed wading bird stands just over 3 feet tall, towering above almost all other wetland birds. It slowly walks through wetlands with its long, hefty bill down in the water feeling for fish and crustaceans. This ungainly looking stork roosts and nests in colonies in trees above standing water.
The webpage provides links to download CWHR data and user documents such as a look up table of available range maps including species code, species name, and range map revision history; a full set of CWHR GIS data; .pdf files of each range map or species life history accounts; and a User Guide.
Wood storks are found in central and south Florida year-round. Their migration range extends throughout Florida and Mississippi, as well as parts of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Wood storks roost and nest in groups in forested wetlands and swampy areas.
The webpage provides links to download CWHR data and user documents such as a look up table of available range maps including species code, species name, and range map revision history; a full set of CWHR GIS data; .pdf files of each range map or species life history accounts; and a User Guide.
Like most other wading birds, wood storks feed on small fish in shallow freshwater wetlands. They use tall cypresses near the water for colonial nest sites. They occasionally visit Alabama’s swamps to forage, but no longer are known to nest in the state.
Our only native stork in North America, a very large, heavy-billed bird that wades in the shallows of southern swamps. Flies with slow. ... Species Migration Maps show the movements of a single species as it travels throughout the hemisphere each year. See where the Wood Stork travels throughout the hemisphere each year.
