Mycteria americana, Linnaeus, 1758

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 7

Mycteria americana

Records in the state are restricted to October-April (WikiAves, 2021). With the exception of two records in June and July,records from the nearby states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Sergipe on WikiAves are also restricted to October-April (WikiAves, 2021), suggesting that Wood Storks may be seasonal visitors in extreme northeastern Brazil.The species is known to undertake migratory movements according to local water levels, leaving breeding grounds when the water level is too high for tactile feeding ( Del Lama et al., 2015) ; thus, the Caatinga may provide a suitable habitat during the region’s rainy season.