The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is so named because it frequents wooded swamps from the south-eastern USA to Argentina. The Wood stork is the largest wading birds that breeds in North America – it nests 60 feet off the ground in cypress trees in wetland areas of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Adult wood storks stand about three feet tall, are bald and make no noise except to clatter their heavy, dark bills. Because of this decurved bill, the wood stork has formerly been called the wood ibis, though it is not an ibis.
