Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Jabiru FAMILY - Ciconiidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Jabiru mycteria SYNONYMS - Ciconia mycteria - Lichtenstein, 1819 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 27 Summer visitor - migrant 27 Vulnerable in Belize 28 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 28 Threatened in Belize 27 Vulnerable in Belize 26 Resident, species present all year. 2 Resident, species present all year. 27 IUCN-1994 Near Threatened 22 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 23 District Reference Belize 4 Corozal 10 Orange Walk 9 Stann Creek 7 Toledo 12 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Manatee Forest Reserve 12 Grant's Work Forest Reserve 12 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Wet season 10 Shipstern Nature Reserve Permanent 22 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 12 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 14 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 16 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 27 Gallon Jug 12 Gallon Jug 15 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 12 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 17 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting 8 Community Baboon Sanctuary Sighting Wet season 18 Community Baboon Sanctuary Dry season 12 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve 9 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Dry season 4 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 6 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop 14 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 11 Private land, see comments Dry season 19 Private land, see comments Dry season 20 Private land, see comments 3 Private land, see comments 7 Government land Sighting Dry season 19 Government land Sighting Dry season 21 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 27 Sibun River 14 Belize River 13 Cox's Lagoon 4 Mussel Creek 6 Sittee River 7 Sibun River 8 New River 9 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 24 1-200 m 25 1-200 m 3 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 25 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 12 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 14 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 7 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 10 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 22 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 3 Subtropical moist 25 Subtropical moist 24 General Distribution Comments 27* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 24* Rare in broadleaf forest, & pine ridge, uncommon in wetlands 21* 32 Km NNW Airport Camp 20* Big Falls Rice Farm 19* Airport Camp; Big Falls 11* Gold Button Ranch; 5 birds observed June - Aug. 7* Possum Point Biological Station 2* Permanent resident, rare northern and southern hardwood forests, uncommon coastal savannas. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 3 UMMZ. Hinshaw, J. 1997. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology bird holdings through Jun. 1, 1997. 4 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8. 5 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 6 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. 7 Anon. 1993. Bird Checklist for Possum Point Biological Station, Sittee River, Belize 8 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 9 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 10 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. 11 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 12 Young, F. 1993. Map of Jabiru Stork nesting sites in Belize. in litt. 13 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 14 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 15 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 16 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 17 Forsythe, D. 1994. Unpublished Belize Trip list June 18-21. 18 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. 19 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 20 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 21 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 22 Collar, N.J., P. Andrew. 1988. Birds to Watch, ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. p.259. 23 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 24 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 25 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 26 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. 27 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 28 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.
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