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Maguari stork

ciconia maguari

Description:

The maguari stork - cigüeña as we call it- lives in swamps, grasslands and wet or flooded pasturelands of different southamerican regions. These very tall birds - they can be higher than a metre tall - have a long beak and a red characteristic mark around its bright yellow eye. Although they can be found moving - and flying around (they are great fliers) - freely in Uruguay, the stork shown in the picture was spotted at the city´s zoo. It eats small vertebrates and some acquatic invertebrates which hunts which its enormous beak; beak which it even uses to communicate with other birds by rattling it.

Habitat:

Southamerica.

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3 Comments

KarenL
KarenL 10 years ago

I love the first shot Patty - it looks like its laughing!

patty
patty 10 years ago

Thank you very much Toucan!! =)

Toucan
Toucan 11 years ago

Great series!

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patty

Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay

Spotted on Feb 3, 2013
Submitted on Feb 10, 2013

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