Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

I was at the Cutler Wetlands today and saw a wading bird that I assumed was a juvenile wood stork. It's body was spotted black and white with large spots. The head and beak looked like a wood stork. It was feeding in the shallows across the street from the main wetlands area. Problem is I could not find one picture on the Internet of a wood stork that had these large white and black spots on its
body.

Has any one else seen this bird and identified what it is?

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