Wood Stork

Taken along the Anhinga Trail. The Wood Stork was placed on the endangered species list in 1984. It feeds not by sight but by touch, tacto-location, in shallow, often muddy water full of plants where fish can't be seen. Walking slowly forward it sweeps its submerged bill slowly from side to side. When it touches its prey, mostly small fish, the bill snaps shut with a 25-millisecond reflex action, the fastest reflex known for vertebrate species.

Everglades National Park

January 20th 2011
Geo: 25.3945, -80.5818Won't add much information here. Just click on the first picture to see all of the pictures on this page in an album with comments. When you finish with the ones in this album click on "Close" at the top right of the screen to be returned to this page. Then click "Next entry" at the botom of this page to go to pictures of the next park. This page h ... read more

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