ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — 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 ...

Now, with more than 400 pairs of nesting wood storks, Woody Pond is Georgia’s largest stork rookery and one of the most important in the Southeast, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Wood storks were down to only 5,000 nesting pairs in the 1970s, but there are now more than 11,000 pairs across Florida, Georgia and other states in the Southeast. “There’s no better way to celebrate ...

Florida’s only wading bird on the endangered species list, the wood stork, is on the mend. From a low of about 2,500 nesting pairs in most of South and Central Florida in 1984, the bird has ...