Initiate Flight
by Dawn Currie
Title
Initiate Flight
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic art by Dawn Currie. A Wood Stork taking flight from a nearby perch.
Awards and PSA International exhibitions:
- 2018 Grand Canyon Winter Circuit - Third Judging
- 2016 IUP International Photographic Exhibition
Featured on Fine Art America/Pixels:
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- ABC Group - E is for Elevated
- Birds In Focus
- Coastal Water Birds-shore Birds
- FAA Portraits - Birds
- Images That Excite You
- Pure Nature Photography
- USA Photographers
- Wild Birds Of The World
- Wildlife
- 10 Plus Favorites
- The 200 Club
Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large, white, bald-headed wading bird of the southeastern swamps. They are about 45 inches tall, with a wingspan of 60 to 65 inches. The plumage is white except for black primaries and secondaries and a short black tail. They feed in shallow water, stirring the bottom with its unlikely pink feet and snapping up small prey that are unlucky enough to encounter the bird’s sensitive bill.
Wood Storks fly with slow wingbeats, and flocks often soar very high on warm days. It is the only stork breeding in the United States. Their late winter/early spring breeding season is timed to the Florida dry season when its fish prey become concentrated in shrinking pools.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service upgraded the status for wood storks from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2016, reflecting a highly successful conservation and recovery effort spanning three decades.
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May 5th, 2017
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the E IS FOR ELEVATED themed week! You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive.
Michelle Tinger
Wood storks are not the prettiest birds around, but in flight with that edge of black on their wings, they are gorgeous, just as your in-flight capture is.
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