Milky Stork (Mycteria cinerea)

About Milky Stork (Mycteria cinerea)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Pelicans
• Family: Storks

A primarily coastal resident, favouring tidal mudflats for foraging, and bordering mangroves or freshwater/peat swamp forest for nesting (2). This species has also been recorded from saline pools, freshwater marshes, fishponds and rice-fields, up to 50 kilometres inland (2) (4).
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