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- an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
How To Use Mycteria americana In A Sentence
- Also a great variety of tropical marine birds including rufescent tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), wood stork (Mycteria americana), and horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) are just a few species present in this ecoregion, not to mention invertebrates such as shrimp, crabs and mollusks. Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves
- Jabirú, Jabiru mycteria formerly, Mycteria americana and Ephippiorhynchus mycteria; protonym, Ciconia mycteria, also known as the American jabiru and the jabiru stork, photographed at Belém, Brasil. Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
