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The Vulturine Storks

10,000 Birds

This is a bird with some pedigree. Its the only member of the genus Mycteria in the New World, the rest of its cogeners, a handful of other bald and nearly bald Storks with long curved bills, hail from East Africa and South Asia. This begs the question, how did the Wood Stork end up in the Americas with relatives so far away?

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