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World Scout Jamboree

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World Scout Jamboree Scouts at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree Owner World Organization of the Scout Movement Date 1920  Scouting portal The World Scout Jamboree is a Scouting jamboree of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, typically attended by several tens of thousands of Scouts from around the world, aged 14 to 17. The first World Scout Jamboree was organized by The Boy Scout Association in London. With exceptions for the war years, it has been organized approximately every four years, in the more recent years by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), in different locations over the world. The 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007 was held in Hylands Park, Essex, United Kingdom, and celebrated the Centenary of Scouting. The 22nd World Scout Jamboree was at Rinkaby in Sweden from 27 July 2011 to 8 August 2011, the 23rd World Scout Jamboree was at Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi City in Japan - it opened on 28 July 2015, and closed 8 August 2015...

Wood stork

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A wading bird found in the Americas For the African bird sometimes called the wood stork, see yellow-billed stork. Wood stork Pond, Tampa Bay, Florida Chick vocalizations   ( help · info ) Conservation status Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Ciconiiformes Family: Ciconiidae Genus: Mycteria Species: M. americana Binomial name Mycteria americana Linnaeus, 1758 Synonyms Tantalus loculator Linnaeus, 1758 The wood stork ( Mycteria americana ) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the "wood ibis" , though it is not an ibis. It is found in subtropical and tropical habitats in the Americas, including the Caribbean. In South America, it is resident, but in North America, it may disperse to as far as South America. Originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, this stork like...