Mycteria is a genus of large subtropical and tropical storks (Family Ciconiidae) with representatives in the Americas, east Africa, and southern and southeastern Asia.

Juvenile Mycteria storks are duller versions of the adults, generally browner and with paler bills.

These storks are gregarious broad-winged soaring birds that fly with the neck outstretched and legs extended.

[1] Mycteria storks walk slowly and steadily in shallow open wetlands seeking their prey, which, like that of most of their relatives, consists of fish, frogs and large insects.

[8][9] A Late Pleistocene distal radius from San Josecito Cavern (Mexico) may belong in this genus or in Ciconia.