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Active wood stork colonies in the United States from 2015–2019 (United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 2023). The current range of the wood stork includes the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and South America. [17] Within the United States, small breeding populations exist in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. [18]
The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
The body plumage is mainly white in all the species, with black in the flight feathers of the wings. The Old World species have bright yellow bills, red or yellow bare facial skin, and red legs; these parts are much duller in the American wood stork. Juvenile Mycteria storks are duller versions of the adults, generally browner and with paler bills.
Storks are large, heavy, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long stout bills and wide wingspans. They lack the powder down that other wading birds such as herons, spoonbills, and ibises use to clean off fish slime. Storks lack a pharynx and are mute. One species has been recorded in Ohio. Wood stork, Mycteria americana (R)
This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo, Illinois. A map and diagram of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
The Eufaula NWR protects endangered and threatened species such as the wood stork. There is a variety of wildlife habitats in the Eufaula NWR including approximately 4000 acres (16 km 2) of open water, 3000 acres (12 km 2) of wetlands, 2000 acres (8 km 2) of woodlands, 1000 acres (4 km 2) of croplands and 1000 acres (4 km 2) of grasslands.
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An early map of the Falls of the Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky is in the lower right The area is located at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the only navigational barrier on the river in earlier times. The falls were a series of rapids formed by the relatively recent erosion of the Ohio River operating on 386-million-year-old Devonian hard ...