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Ciconia maltha

Extinct species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
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Source-derived summary

Ciconia maltha, also known as the asphalt stork or La Brea stork, is an extinct stork from the Late Pliocene – Late Pleistocene of United States, Cuba and Bolivia. It has been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, whence the species name maltha.

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The public source identifies “Ciconia maltha” as extinct species of bird. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ciconia, maltha and Extinct.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 44-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ciconia, maltha and Extinct providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ciconia maltha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.