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title: "Jabiru"
description: "Jabiru mycteria — Birds. The jabiru ( or ; Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/jabiru
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Jabiru

> Jabiru mycteria — Birds. The jabiru ( or ; Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes.

- Scientific name: *Jabiru mycteria*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 5118
- Wikidata: [Q17970](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17970)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4773](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4773)

## Names

- en: Jabiru
- de: Jabiru
- es: Cigüeña jabirú
- fr: Jabiru d'Amérique
- nl: Jabiroe
- pt: Jaburu
- pl: Żabiru amerykański

## Countries with the most observations

BR (2201), AR (777), CR (494), BO (319), CO (251), BZ (208), MX (199), PE (95), GY (74), PY (62), VE (44), NI (35)

## Summary

The jabiru ( or ; Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It sometimes wanders into the United States, usually in Texas, but has also been reported in Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana.  It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay.  It is the only member of the genus Jabiru.  The name comes from the Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabiru

## Photo

![Jabiru](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/jabiru/medium.jpg)

Photo: demianlescano · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240964540

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/jabiru?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).