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Team of Biologists Install Three Nesting Platforms for Wood Storks at the Jacksonville Zoo
Southeast Region, October 1, 2004
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Since the mid-1990's, Wood Storks have been regular visitors at the Jacksonville Zoological Gardens. They began nesting there in 1999, and their successful colony, located near the antelope exhibit, now consists of over 80 nesting pairs. In a cooperative effort to encourage Wood Stork nesting in other parts of the Jacksonville Zoological Gardens, a team of Service biologists from the Washington Office, the Welaka Fish Hatchery, and the Jacksonville Ecological Services Field Office (including two recently retired staff members), came together in December to install three, 25-foot-tall nesting platforms near the Wild Florida exhibits. The platforms also serve as an educational display to highlight the success of the 150 Wood Stork nesting platforms at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Townsend, Georgia.

Contributed by: Billy Brooks, ES-Jacksonville, FL

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