Other Names: American wood stork, flinthead, gannet, ironhead; wrongly called wood ibis;
Length: 35-45 in.
Wingspan: about 3 1/2 feet
Weight: Males weigh 10 lb. or more; females less
Age: One in captivity lived 6+ yrs. members of stork family are normally long lived
Voice: Storks do not have muscles in the syrinx (voice box) so almost voiceless except for low grunts and hisses; however, the young are noisy
Food: Walks about in shallow ponds and marshes groping with open bill swallowing any living thing bill touches; “rough” fishes, frogs, tadpoles, snakes, young alligators