The last few years have been especially tough in South Florida for wading birds such as egrets, herons, ibises and wood storks that feed and nest in the region's wetlands. The problem is there are ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Wood storks are on the rebound. The animal was on the brink of extinction, but that is not the case any longer. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering taking the wood ...

ST. PETERSBURG — The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has recovered sufficiently in Florida and other Southern states that U.S. wildlife officials on ...

Were it the stock market or an EKG, we'd call it a crash. But when the subject is birds, and the people doing the talking are mostly scientists, the language is more measured, yet the underlying alarm ...

Wood storks filled the skies and cypress tree canopies of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for millennia, breeding and feeding their young in one of the largest bald cypress forests on the planet. "A 1914 ...

This story has been updated to include comments from the South Florida Water Management District. Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough couple of years with annual nesting over the last two ...

Were it the stock market or an EKG, we'd call it a crash. But when the subject is birds, and the people doing the talking are mostly scientists, the language is more measured, yet the underlying alarm ...

The federally endangered wood stork (Mycteria americana) nested successfully in South Carolina during 2013. The U.S. breeding population of wood storks was listed as endangered after nesting pairs ...

CHARLESTON — South Carolina is playing a key role in the resurgence of the American wood stork as a record number of nests were recorded in the state this year. Scientists say the recovery has been ...