Ciconia maguari
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) is a large species of stork that inhabits seasonal wetlands over much of South America, and is very similar in appearance to the white stork; albeit slightly larger. It is the only species of its genus to occur in the New World and is one of the only three New World stork species, together with the wood stork and the jabiru.
The maguari stork was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the herons, cranes and storks in the genus Ardea and coined the binomial name Ardea maguari. Gmelin's description was ultimately based on the "Maguari Brasiliensibus" that had been described and illustrated in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his book Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. The maguari stork is now one of seven storks placed in the genus Ciconia that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The genus name is the Latin word for "stork". The specific epithet maguari and the common name are from the Tupi language, "Maguarí" or "Baguarí" means "heavy bill". The species is monotypic... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 6 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZooParc de Beauval | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 2 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Zlín-Lešná Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 4 | Audubon Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Berlin Zoological Garden | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Terra Natura Benidorm | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 7 | Temaikén | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Gramado Zoo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Zoológico Municipal de Cascavel | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Córdoba Zoo | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 11 | Seville Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 13 | Aquarium Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Maguari Stork sighting in El Impenetrable National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 165th most-seen of the 219 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Maguari Stork in El Impenetrable National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–April, June, August–September and November, the lowest months. December has too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Maguari Stork sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 5
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Maguari Stork sightings, El Impenetrable National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Iberá National Park (Argentina, about 40%).
Same family: Ciconiidae
The closest relatives of the Maguari Stork that you can see in El Impenetrable National Park (family Ciconiidae, Storks) are Jabiru (about 20%) and Wood Stork (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Maguari Stork is recorded against all the birds logged in El Impenetrable National Park (15 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
