Maguaristorch
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Maguaristorch ( Ciconia maguari ) |
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The Maguaristorch ( Ciconia maguari ) is a South American stork.
features
The Maguaristorch reaches a length of 90 cm and a wingspan of 120 cm and a weight of 3.5 kg. The plumage is predominantly white with black wing feathers . It differs from the similar white stork in its black forked tail, the blue-gray beak in adult birds, the reddish-orange bare skin around the eyes and the white iris. In captivity, the oldest animal lived to be more than 20 years old.
Occurrence
The Maguaristorch lives in South America, east of the Andes from Venezuela to Argentina in wetlands and on agricultural land.
behavior
The maguaristorch feeds on fish, frogs, crabs, small rodents, snakes, aquatic insects and other invertebrates.
Reproduction
The male becomes sexually mature at three and the female at four. The bird nests in colonies with 5 to 15 nests, sometimes only 60 cm apart. The nest is one to six meters high on bushes or small trees or on the ground in dense vegetation. The nesting sites are always surrounded by water. Two to three eggs are incubated for 29 to 32 days. The young bird is white after birth, but then changes to a dark color, with an orange neck, and resembles its parents after 3 months.
Danger
The IUCN classifies the Maguaristorch as potentially endangered ( Least Concern ).
Web links
- Ciconia Maguari in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2015 Posted by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved on February 2, 2016th
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Ciconia maguari in the Internet Bird Collection
- Maguari Stork. San Francisco Zoo, accessed May 3, 2013 .