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:
- A Birding Group - Wings
- 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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