#1337 · 🐦 birds
Wood Stork
🇳🇱 Kaalkopooievaar ·Mycteria americana
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what is it?
The wood stork ( Mycteria americana ) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the " wood ibis ", though it is not an ibis. It is found in subtropical and tropical habitats in the Americas, including the Caribbean. In South America, it is resident, but in North America, it disperses to as far as South America. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It likely evolved in tropical regions....
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 38,376 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wood Stork
- Nederlands
- Kaalkopooievaar
- scientific name
- Mycteria americana
- class
- Aves
- order
- Ciconiiformes
- family
- Ciconiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 38,376
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Ciconiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4742, Wikidata Q990175, GBIF 2481937, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.