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title: "Cabeça-seca"
description: "Mycteria americana — Aves. The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/wood-stork
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cabeça-seca

> Mycteria americana — Aves. The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks).

- Scientific name: *Mycteria americana*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 37694
- Wikidata: [Q990175](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q990175)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4742](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4742)

## Names

- en: Wood Stork
- de: Waldstorch
- es: Cigüeña americana
- fr: Tantale d'Amérique
- nl: Kaalkopooievaar
- pt: Cabeça-seca
- pl: Dławigad amerykański

## Countries with the most observations

US (24052), MX (5500), BR (1572), CR (1220), AR (1179), PA (576), CO (495), BO (376), BZ (274), HN (249), NI (202), PE (169)

## Summary

The wood stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the family Ciconiidae (storks). Originally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, this stork is native to the subtropics and tropics of the Americas, where it persists in habitats with fluctuating water levels. It is the only stork species that breeds in North America. The head and neck are bare of feathers, and dark grey in colour. The plumage is mostly white, with the exception of the tail and some of the wing feathers, which are black with a greenish-purplish sheen.
Globally, the wood stork is considered to be of least concern by the International Union…

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

## Photo

![Cabeça-seca](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wood-stork/medium.jpg)

Photo: Conway Hawn · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175574754

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wood-stork?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).