“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
~1858-1919
~ Naturalist & Conservationist
~26th President of the
United States of America
~ 1901-1909
A Wood Stork strolls through the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina on a late October afternoon.
The Wood Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family. Large, white Wood Storks wade through southeastern swamps and wetlands. Although this stork doesn’t bring babies, it is a good flier, soaring on thermals with neck and legs outstretched. This bald-headed wading bird stands just over three feet tall, towering above almost all other wetland birds. It slowly walks through wetlands with its long, hefty bill down in the water feeling for fish and crustaceans. This ungainly looking stork roosts and nests in colonies in trees above standing water.
