Record Year for Wood Storks in Georgia

By Corey • August 6, 2010 • 2 comments

The state of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources has announced that the number of Wood Stork nests state-wide is higher this year than any other year since aerial nest surveys began in the early 1990s. The count of more than 2,500 broke the previous record of about 2,200, and is attributed to poor weather early in the breeding season in Florida, which caused at least some storks to relocate and attempt a new nest in Georgia. Here’s hoping the Wood Stork continues on its comeback trail.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Record Year for Wood Storks in Georgia”

Jochen Aug 6th, 2010 at 8:24 am
Well, frankly Corey, that’s not exactly brilliant news, is it?
If the increase is not caused by an overall population increase in the US but by a relocation of birds because the breeding season was so bad in Florida, then one might presume that the overall population in the US had not the best of breeding years?
Although I do confess to not having followed the link due to time constrains and not knowing enough – well, anything really – about Wood Stork population dynamics.
Heck, I haven’t even seen a Wood Stork…
Corey Aug 6th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Yeah, it’s really more of an illustration as to why bird populations have to be looked at on a large scale.

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