Ciconia maguari
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
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 |
No species of the same family or order lives in Serra dos Órgãos National Park, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Maguari Stork sighting in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 308th most-seen of the 336 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Maguari Stork in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, against under 5% in October to August, the lowest months.
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.
5th of 5
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Maguari Stork sightings, Serra dos Órgãos National Park ranks 5th at under 5%. The best odds are in Iberá National Park (Argentina, about 40%), El Impenetrable National Park (Argentina, about 10%) and El Palmar National Park (Argentina, under 5%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Maguari Stork is recorded against all the birds logged in Serra dos Órgãos National Park (7 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.
