Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Wood Stork FAMILY - Ciconiidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Mycteria americana REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 31 Vulnerable in Belize 30 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 30 Of concern: cayes and coastal zone 8 Resident, species present all year. 3 Hunted - subsistence or commercial 4 District Reference Belize 6 Cayo 7 Corozal 13 Orange Walk 7 Toledo 5 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Sighting Permanent 16 Columbia River Forest Reserve Dry season 14 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 13 Shipstern Nature Reserve 25 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 20 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 28 Gallon Jug Sighting Dry season 7 Gallon Jug Dry season 18 Gallon Jug 19 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 17 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 22 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 27 Community Baboon Sanctuary 21 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve Sighting Dry season 12 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Sighting Wet season 10 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Wet season 11 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 6 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Permanent 24 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop 18 Placencia Peninsula & Lagoon (Propose Dry season 18 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 22 Chiquibul National Park Sighting August 5 Private land, see comments Accidental 23 Private land, see comments 9 Private land, see comments Dry season 15 Private land, see comments 18 Private land, see comments 24 Private land, see comments Sighting 26 Cayes, other; see comments 8 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 28 Cox's Lagoon 6 Belize River 9 Mussel Creek 11 New River 12 Elevation Reference 1100-1200 m 5 1-200 m 26 1-200 m 28 1-200 m 29 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 7 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 28 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 26 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 29 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 24 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 29 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 29 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 18 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 15' to 88 30' 18 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 14 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 13 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 25 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 23 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 26 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' CR 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 15 50' to 16 00'; 88 50' to 89 15' 5 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 26 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' CR 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 26 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' CR Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 29 Subtropical wet 27 Subtropical wet 26 Subtropical moist 29 Subtropical moist 28 Subtropical moist 26 Subtropical moist 25 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 5 General Distribution Comments 31* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Common mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Uncommon cayes inc. Ambergris. 3* Common in northern hardwood forests, common in coastal savannahs, common in mangroves & beaches along coastal mainland. 23* Big Falls Rice Farm; Blue Creek 22* Big Falls 18* Toledo Settlement, 4 mi. W of Punta Gorda 16* Button Lagoon and Corozalito agricultural settlement 15* Gold Button Ranch 9* Banana Bank Ranch 8* Bennett's Lagoon & Shipstern Lagoon References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B.W. 1959. Bird Species of Concern. pp. 56-64. in Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1995. National Protected Areas System Plan for Belize, Vol. 3. Zoological Report 236 p. NARMAP. 5 Matola, S., 1990. The Dolores Expedition, January 27 - February 3, 1990. Unpublished report. 6 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8. 7 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 8 McRae, E., 1994. The Birds of Belize's Coastal Zone: Species, Distribution, Current Status, Threats to their Well-being, and Potential Measures to Reduce their Impact. Report to NPAMP. 9 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 10 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 11 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 12 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 13 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 14 Matola, S., compiler. 1989. Doyle's Delight, 20 - 31 August. Unpublished report. 15 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 16 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 17 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 18 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 19 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 20 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 21 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 22 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 23 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 24 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 25 Quigley, H. B., B. W. Miller, C. M. Miller. 1995. Mammal Survey, Shipstern Nature Reserve, April 4-13, 1995. Unpublished report for ITCF. 26 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 27 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 28 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 29 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 30 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 31 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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