How To Use Stork In A Sentence
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A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby.
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The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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We always used to say the guys on the Ridge were lucky, the stork brought their babies.
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The photo passes tests of symmetry that the painted chandelier fails, Stork says.
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We dissuade any lady from touching or going near a zebra's mouth, or the horns of an ibex or an algazel, or the pointed bill of a heron or stork, or from putting her hand near this fine painted pig.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
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This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks.
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The zoo hosts a large number of water fowl, cranes and storks - species that are sensitive to changes in wetland systems.
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It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies.
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In the clear blue sky above, four open-billed storks had a got a thermal and were spiralling up, Icaris-like, on motionless wings, to an unknown destination.
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This year, the zoo has received nearly 500 painted storks and cormorants, local migratory birds that have come in from nearby States.
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2 For a brief definition of the term compensatory lengthening and some interesting examples of it, see an abstract of Campos-Astorkiza, "A Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening", Phonology and Phonetics in Iberia (June 2005) (or view the pdf here).
Archive 2008-06-01
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Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss.
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Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood.
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Wildlife biologists say the troublesome invaders — dumped in the Everglades by pet owners who no longer want them — have become a pest and pose a significant threat to endangered species like the wood stork and Key Largo woodrat.
Pythons Invading Florida Everglades | Impact Lab
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Any attempt to imitate the stance of a stork was destined for trouble.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house.
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A flower that goes on blooming is stork's-bill, with its small pink blossoms and beaked seed-pods.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
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The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen.
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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In a bird census undertaken in January last year in Misamari Beel, 16,575 birds were found, which included 22 greater adjutant storks.
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Tish Kelly was glowing her me-too look at the women in The Stork Shop.
WITHOUT REMORSE
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The white stork is one of the biggest land birds of the region.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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She hissed, spat and arched her back, and the hyenas kept their distance, though they did manage to grab the stork.
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Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
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Reserves were created to save critical habitat for endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, saiga antelope, Russian desman and black stork.
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They include three small pink flowers - herb robert, stork's bill and red campion.
Times, Sunday Times
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An awkward, gangly youth known to her peers as ‘Storky’, she made her theatrical debut in a nativity aged six and promptly devoted herself to the world of theatre.
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A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls.
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But the researchers involved are quite hopeful that the simple netting technique will be a first step toward increasing the overall numbers of the greater adjutant stork.
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It is also known as the black-necked stork or jabiru stork.
Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
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Other residents include egrets, moor hens, herons, coots, white-necked storks, lapwings, grey wagtails, grebes, black droungos, green bee-eaters, tailorbirds, magpies and robins as well as numerous species of migratory birds like flamingos that often visit the place.
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Small game of various species was frequently seen in the fields and hedges; kingfishers, kites, and hawks put in an appearance, and a tall bird standing four feet high was pointed out to us, called a sarus, gray in color, and of the stork family.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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High above the skies will be filled with gliding cranes, storks and birds of prey.
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Our surveys have shown that the state has over 180 species of resident birds including jabiru storks, 5 species of ibises (including the scarlet), most of Venezuela's herons, sungrebes, sunbitterns, yellow knobbed curassows, scarlet macaws, hoatzings and a great number of raptors.
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These include common waterbirds such as bitterns (cinnamon bittern [Ixobrychus cinnamomeus]), herons and egrets (Indian pond-heron [Ardeola grayii], Pacific reef-egret [Egretta sacra]), storks (woolly-necked stork [Ciconia episcopus]), ibis (black-headed ibis [Threskiornis melanocephalus]), ducks (spot-billed duck [Anas poecilorhyncha]), jacanas (pheasant-tailed jacana [Hydrophasianus chirurgus]), pratinoles (oriental pratincole [Glareola maldivarum]), and terns (black-bellied tern [Sterna acuticauda]).
Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
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Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks.
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The answer lies up in the stratosphere where the cloud Gus is a master at creating “dangerous” babies, which prove to be more than a handful for his loval delivery stork Peck.
[REVIEW] Disney-Pixar’s ‘UP’ on Blu-Ray « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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The animal associated with Anthony is the Marabou, which is a large African stork which scavenges for food.
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There are few McPhail originals in the smart family home and its detached studio, converted from a double garage, only what Rodger describes as obscure things like llamas or snakes or marabou storks.
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What noetical RT @WoodStork: RT @evtrust Cold took heavy toll on
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Storken kom att bli ett slags symboldjur under den lilla tyska-polska resan i början av augusti.
More crime
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We saw hippo and elephant but for me highlights were a rare slaty egret, an in-your-face look at a marabou stork standing over a single egg on its head-high nest.
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The ravers never showed at Odd Stork, which was probably just as well.
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Congratulations to Michael & Mary, who had a visit from the stork during the week with the arrival of their new baby son Declan.
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Volunteers at Marbury Country Park, near Northwich, spotted three booming bitterns, members of the heron and stork family, feeding among reedbeds.
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However, the flower with the longest beaks is called storksbill.
Times, Sunday Times
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Factors such as plant, warning, human disturbance, terrain, water source, and soil showed correlation to the habitat selection index for foraging of black stork.
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You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls.
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Both plants have seedpods that look like a bird's head and beak, but the stork's-bill beak is startlingly longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Elsewhere, we came across storks, ruffs and egrets, and herons of all descriptions.
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Stork notes that pinpricks show that Jan van Eyck's 1432 portrait of Cardinal Albergati was magnified mechanically, with a proportional compass.
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That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes.
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He is best known for a prayer that ended an invasion of storks.
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Along waterways and ponds you're likely to see parrots and macaws, hawks and jabiru storks.
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The baby hatch at the Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto would be called “the cradle of storks” and set up in the lobby like a post box, according to hospital officials.
Japan Approves First ‘Baby Hatch’ | Impact Lab
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Proponents claimed that the improved stork habitat would benefit the kites as well, which also frequented that area.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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He has also acted as a foster parent to various animals, including a juvenile stork that was taken from its nest and later abandoned.
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The park's location in the Gangetic Plain makes it an unrivaled breeding site for herons, storks and cormorants and an important wintering ground for large numbers of migrant ducks.
Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
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Big birds such as the cranes and storks too can be seen taking frequent drinks and baths at their troughs.
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Of those that died, only one was visibly ill before disappearance, three were suspected to have been lost during intergroup encounters, one was killed by a warthog, and six were preyed upon by marabou storks.
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Later the thumbling flies to Africa aboard a stork.
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The un-similarity of foraging habitat selection of Oriental White Stork is great between spring and autumn, spring and summer, while have small un-similarity between summer and autumn.
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As it was dark, the storks were sleeping safely in their high roosting places on the tall pillars of the aqueduct.
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Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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The African jabiru is more commonly known as the saddle-billed stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis.
Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
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Any attempt to imitate the stance of a stork was destined for trouble.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Any attempt to imitate the stance of a stork was destined for trouble.
GOODBYE CURATE
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The fish eagle and marabou stork are very common predators
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The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
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This emphasis on its international business was officially recognised by a change of name to John Stork International.
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To be fair, Stork's reasoning has a certain justification.
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The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
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The World Conservation Union classifies the greater adjutant stork as a ‘conservation-dependent’ species in great danger of extinction.
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There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the pine trees.
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The avifauna comprises 333 species, representing 63 of the 74 families in Guatemala, and includes ocellated turkey Agriocharis ocellata (LR), Sarcorhamphus papa, Crax rubra, Penelope purpurascens, red macaw Ara macao, jaribu stork Jaribu mycteria and many others, including crested eagle Spizaetus ornatus.
Tikal National Park, Guatemala
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The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others.
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They are generally considered among the raptors, yet DNA studies show New World vultures to be ancestrally more closely related to storks.
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Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge.
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Cosimo of the stork nest nest nest green nest chunks
The Nest
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Newly hatched wood storks cry for food, sending parents to hunt for newly plentiful minnows.
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Other globally threatened species recorded in this ecoregion include wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus, VU), which has its main breeding populations in the wetlands of Zambia, including the Kafue Flats and the Bangweulu and Busanga swamps, corncrake (Crex crex, VU), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU), great snipe (Gallinago media) and shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex).
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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There is yet another stork known as the jabiru, this one in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
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The park is known for its rich bird life, so focus on large wading birds, such as the roseate spoonbill, woodstork, great blue heron and a variety of egrets.
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We paddled right under the canopy of trees overhanging the banks and got close encounters with egrets, herons, storks and some brilliant kingfishers.
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Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
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Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas.
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The new facility will cater for the rarer bird species, like parrots, raptors, waterfowl, cranes, storks, hornbills, and other selected birds.
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In the lower reaches of the river, red-crowned crane Grus japonensis (EN), hooded crane Grus monacha* (VU), oriental stork Ciconia boyciana (EN), black stork Ciconia nigra*, yellow-legged buttonquail Turnix tanki, Far Eastern curlew Numenius madagascariensis and grey-faced buzzard Butastur indicus* are present.
Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation
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Officials are closely monitoring and conducting tests of open-billed storks and teals to prevent the further spread of the outbreak during their winter migration season.
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But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class.
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Though he was competent with a pick and a torsion wrench, he had none of the Stork's finesse or training.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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These include ostriches, macaws, toucans, flamingos, storks and cranes.
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Delaval Stork stated this flow should be uncompensated, representing the actual volume flow for compressor anti-surge control.
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I saw other storks in Cordoba, Spain, baking in the 116 degree heat on the top of a statue.
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Both plants have seedpods that look like a bird's head and beak, but the stork's-bill beak is startlingly longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Favoured by brolgas, sarus cranes and black-necked storks, its lagoons were created from excess irrigation water.
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Any attempt to imitate the stance of a stork was destined for trouble.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Elsewhere, we came across storks, ruffs and egrets, and herons of all descriptions.
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Perhaps even more worrying, the pythons may be preying on native mangrove fox squirrels and wood storks.
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Purple moorehen, grey heron and a good number of duck species colonise this water body with a few unusual migratory birds such as ruff and reev, glossy ibis and open billed storks joining in.
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Yet Stork determined the probable focal length of a concave mirror made by inverting and silvering the convex mirror shown in the painting.
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It would seem that these imitation jabiru storks were named after the original South American species after being mistaken for it.
Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
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Pliny recorded the fact that "the use of clysters or enemata was first taught by the stork, which may be observed to inject water into its bowels by means of its long beak.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
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He is best known for a prayer that ended an invasion of storks.
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
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Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings, she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet.
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Rob and Mitch handled the fieldwork, as usual, with the Stork thrown in if they needed gadgets.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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The flooded jheels ensure sheltered feeding and refuge for countless thousands of geese, ducks, storks, herons and waders.
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Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees.
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And in the case of Stork (and maybe Whitson, her bio is a bit fuzzy to me), he had no history of being a human rights activist, as such, but was a leftist commentator on Middle East affairs.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Yglesias Challenge on Human Rights Watch
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These include ostriches, macaws, toucans, flamingos, storks and cranes.
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In Africa that list should include the eland, white rhinoceros, blessbok, bontebok, kudu, giraffes and southern elephants, sable antelope, rhinoceros south of the Zambesi, leucoryx antelope and whale-headed stork.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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The avifauna includes black stork Ciconia nigra, white stork Ciconia ciconia, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, greater spotted eagle A. clanga (VU), white-tailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla, great snipe Gallinaga media, corncrake Crex crex, eagle owl Bubo bubo. great grey owl Strix nebulosa and Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
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They include three small pink flowers - herb robert, stork's bill and red campion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above, a white stork stands surrounded by boat-tailed grackles in Lion Country Safari, a bird sanctuary in Palm Beach, Florida.
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She asserted that a photo of marabou storks on a pile of rubbish was racist because it portrayed the decay of Johannesburg under black rule.
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At Vedanthangal one can sight glossy and white ibis, painted storks, grey pelicans, shovellors, garganey, whistling teals, Indian moorhen and dabchicks, says K. Murugan, who briefs visitors on the bird species.
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Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different.
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The national plant is rue, and the national bird is the stork.
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There is a reason for these statistics and it's not that the stork is going mad and dropping babies off in the wrong places, it is that teenagers are having unprotected sex.
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In hedgerows and in field verges are forget-me-nots, storksbills and clovers.
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While the shoebill is technically a type of stork, it's not hard to see why the cartoon kinds that always show up delivering babies don't look much like this hook-billed cousin.
TreeHugger
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Edward Davis, aka Danny Dunn, aka the Stork, has one in patriot blue.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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There are stooping painted storks, immaculate spoonbills, small groups of dabchicks puttering about like busy little tugboats, and a pair of patrolling river terns, which I think are nesting on a mud-spit at the far side.
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In the next decade, Igor would find a hundred black stork nests and observe as many as 24 breeding pairs a year - more than the number of black storks in all of France.
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Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
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More than 200 species of birds are also found here, including the rare Storm's stork and the oriental darter, kingfishers and raptors such as the crested serpent eagle.
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The Sajnakhali area contains a wealth of water birds, noteworthy residents including Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans, black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, greater adjutant Leptoptilos dubius (E), white ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus, swamp francolin Francolinus gularis, white-collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris, black-capped kingfisher H. pileata and brown-winged kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera.
Sundarbans National Park, India
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
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'I thought it was supposed to be a stork ,' Nathan said with mock innocence.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The cranesbills and storksbills have pink, red, mauve or blue five-petalled flowers.
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Take a closer look and see the storksbills and sea campions also in flower amongst the pinks.
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It is common in gardens usually near coastal areas and feeds on plants in the Geranium family such as cranesbills and storksbills.
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As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies.
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At Vedanthangal one can sight glossy and white ibis, painted storks, grey pelicans, shovellors, garganey, whistling teals, Indian moorhen and dabchicks.
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Hippos and marabou storks wander the shoreline near the tiny fishing villages whose hauls of Nile perch, tilapia, catfish and white herring sustain the local economy.
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In such cases, the young storks are hand-reared.
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Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
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She nudged him in a way that suggested all manner of wild creatures, such as lovebirds and storks.
Question Quest
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The stork had just procreated and was spreading its wings over the helpless little creatures in the nest to protect them from the scorching late-June sun.
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Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers and according to some traditions the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her.
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Birds were aged according to a regression equation for age on the length of the wing for storks.
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Reserves were created to save critical habitat for endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, saiga antelope, Russian desman and black stork.
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Among the birds enumerated by Kuhn and others as representing the storm-cloud are likewise the wren or "kinglet" (French roitelet); the owl, sacred to Athene; the cuckoo, stork, and sparrow; and the red-breasted robin, whose name Robert was originally an epithet of the lightning-god Thor.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
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Inland species may associate with herons, egrets, storks, ibises, and spoonbills.
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Three impoundments are stocked with bluegill sunfish and brown bullhead and partially drained to an appropriate depth for stork foraging during the late summer months.
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A flower that goes on blooming is stork's-bill, with its small pink blossoms and beaked seed-pods.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
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The painted storks from Siberia and Algeria fly across the seas and mainlands for about 6,000 km to reach Veerapuram.
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Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans.
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Of other fowles their principal kinds are the swan tame and wilde, (whereof they haue great store) the storke, the crane, the tedder of the colour of a feasant, but far bigger and liueth in the firre woods.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Australia's only stork, the jabiru stands about a metre and a half tall.
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The man turned himself in to police in Buritam Province as they searched for him on suspicion he had killed a greater adjutant stork last week.
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These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests.
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Other rare and endangered waterfowl that visit Poyang Lake include Oriental white stork (Ciconia boyciana), swan goose (Anser cygnoides), and white-naped crane (Grus vipio).
Changjiang Plain evergreen forests
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
Archive 2006-11-01
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These include ostriches, macaws, toucans, flamingos, storks and cranes.
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The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle, of which only 130 pairs remain worldwide, are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands.
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All the animals had gathered there - giraffes, hippos, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, zebras, aardvarks, hyenas, mongooses, storks and weaver birds.
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I see a limpkin and a wood stork — not birds you see every day, even in the backcountry of Florida.
The Thistle and the Bee
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A few larger birds are still present in Khao Ang Ru Nai, including, at least until the early 1990s, up to five pairs of woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus, the last such remaining in Thailand), pompadour pigeon (Treron pompadora), and green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea).
Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
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Plants in the Pelargoium genus may be known as storksbills in some regions.
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Another great stork -- differing both from the _argala_ of Asia and the
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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This bird, along with the other cormorants, shags, anhingas and gannets are placed into the same taxonomic order as pelicans -- although the pelicans are much more closely related to the storks than to the Phalacrocoracidae.
Mystery bird: Neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus
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A stork had bird watchers in a flap when it flew away from a stately home.
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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
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Spliced into each image is the photograph of an adjutant (a large black and white stork, one of many creatures borrowed by Muybridge from the Philadelphia Zoo).
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Today, Igor still traipses through swamps - with me in tow - searching for black storks in the reserve, where we both volunteer part-time.
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Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering.
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In winter, it's easy to see raptors, Oriental white stork, and white spoonbills.
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During their visit to the park, the children were amazed at the size of the storks and Sarus Cranes.
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Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter.
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The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen.
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Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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One of its biggest attractions is the lofty shoebill stork, which feeds on baby crocodiles amongst other things.
The Guardian World News
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More than 200 species of birds are also found here, including the rare Storm's stork and the oriental darter, kingfishers and raptors such as the crested serpent eagle.
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Most of the postcranial elements belong to continental waterbirds, including pelicans, anhingas, herons, storks, ducks, and rails.
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Along waterways and ponds you're likely to see parrots and macaws, hawks and jabiru storks.
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A few larger birds are still present in Khao Ang Ru Nai, including, at least until the early 1990s, up to five pairs of woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus, the last such remaining in Thailand), pompadour pigeon (Treron pompadora), and green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea).
Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
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Only I wish we have not got King Stork, instead of King Log, like the fabliau [fable] that the Clerk of Saint
Quentin Durward
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Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
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Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
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Roughly 10 per cent of the country's rare black storks will be made homeless.
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This stork is quite common in shallow waters and swampy areas.
