Noun: Mycteria americana
- An American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
"The flinthead, or Mycteria americana, is the only stork native to North America";
- wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead
Type of: stork
Part of: genus Mycteria, Mycteria
Encyclopedia: Mycteria americana