Michael Warren: Wood Stork

Artist: Michael Warren
1938 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1985
Image Size: 14 by 12 inches
Overall Size: 15.75 by 14 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

On wings that span five feet or more, the Wood Stork rises from its wetland home with determined strokes, pointing its long neck and heavy down-curved bill toward its destination -- the nearby feeding grounds. Wood Storks stand approximately 3-1/2 feet tall on stiltlike legs. The snow white body plumage contrasts strikingly with their jet black flight feathers; the Wood Stork is also America's only shore bird with black tail feathers. Adult birds have a bare dark, grayish forehead which has earned them the nickname of "flintheads." Normally silent, and seen only circling at tremendous heights, adult Wood Storks are extremely wary and difficult to stalk. But during nest building, when mature males and females work to ether to build the nest high above the shoreline, and while jointly incubating the dull white eggs, Wood Storks temporarily forego their innate shyness. The noisy, rambunctious hatchlings; remain in the nest for two months, and must be fed up to two pounds -- nearly a third of their body weight -- of food per day by their hard-working parents. One of America's most endangered species, the Wood Stork depends on dwindling wetland feeding areas which are vital to its reproductive cycle. As America's wetlands dry up, food fish population drops, threatening the Wood Stork with extinction. In addition to being called flintheads, Wood Storks are also know as Wood Ibis, and Gannets.

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