Wood Stork

Description:

A very large and tall white wading bird with a heavy and naked gray head. Trailing edges of the wings is black.

Habitat:

Usually coastal in the American South. May hunt in fresh, brackish or salt water.

Notes:

The wood stork hunts by wading the shallows with its beak gapped partially open and the tip submerged under water . When it feels the vibrations of its prey against its beak, the beak snaps shut, trapping the prey.