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Ciconia maguari (Maguari Stork)

Synonyms: Ardea maguari; Ardea spec; Euxenura galeata; Euxenura maguari

Wikipedia Abstract

The maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) is a large species of stork that inhabits seasonal wetlands over much of South America, and is very similar in appearance to the white stork; albeit slightly larger. It is the only species of its genus to occur in the New World and is one of the only three New World stork species, together with the wood stork and the jabiru.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.0139
EDGE Score: 2.99643
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.819 lbs (4.00 kg)
Female Weight [3]  8.378 lbs (3.80 kg)
Male Weight [3]  9.259 lbs (4.20 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [3]  10.5 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Fledging [1]  67 days
Incubation [4]  30 days
Maximum Longevity [6]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  39 inches (100 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Lagunas del suroeste y relictos del Caldenal Argentina A1, A4i
Río Negro: Bajo Chaco Paraguay A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Amphisbaena darwinii[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cathaemasia callis[8]
Chaunocephalus panduriformis[8]
Desportesius longevaginatus[8]
Eustrongylides ignotus[8]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Hancock, JA, JA Kushlan, and MP Kahl. 1992. Storks, ibises, and spoonbills of the world. Academic Press, New York
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 7Diet of a Maguari Stork (Ciconia maguari, Aves, Ciconiidae) in southern Brazil: the opportunist predation of snake like preys?, ALEXANDRO M. TOZETTI, CARLA S. FONTANA, ROBERTO B. OLIVEIRA & GLÁUCIA. M. F. PONTES, Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences (2011), 6(1): 65-67
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0