SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY

Trinidad & Tobago Field Naturalists' Club    Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert    Trinidad & Tobago Rare Bird Committee

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Maguari Stork (Ciconia maguari)

A	B
C	D

Moderately oiled immature at Orange Valley, Trinidad, 17 August 2001 (A) and 18 August 2001 (B-D). Photos © by Floyd Hayes (A) and Courtenay Rooks (B-D). First record for T&T, found by Martyn Kenefick. The pale head feathers distinguish this South American species from the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana). Variability in bill and leg colouration is presumably attributable to variable light and background conditions. This elusive bird was present 17 August-23 September 2001.