Maguari stork

Maguari stork
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ciconiidae
Genus: Ciconia
Species:
C. maguari
Binomial name
Ciconia maguari
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
  Nonbreeding
  Year-round

The maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) is a large species of stork that inhabits seasonal wetlands over much of South America, and is very similar in appearance to the white stork; albeit slightly larger.[2] It is the only species of its genus to occur in the New World[3] and is one of the only three New World stork species, together with the wood stork and the jabiru.[4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ciconia maguari". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22697688A93630558. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697688A93630558.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ King CE. 1988. An ethological comparison of three storks: Ciconia boyciana, C. ciconia, and C. maguari. MS Thesis, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
  3. ^ Short LL. 1975. A zoogeographic analysis of the South American Chaco avifauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 154: 163-352.
  4. ^ Thomas BT. 1985. Coexistence and behaviour differences among three western hemisphere stork species. Ornithological Monographs 36: 921-931.