black-necked stork female(Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) लोहजंघा

black-necked stork female
 (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus
लोहजंघा
SSBS
Agra
Uttar Pradesh
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This is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia. It lives in wetland habitats and near fields of certain crops such as rice and wheat where it forages for a wide range of animal prey. Adult birds of both sexes have a heavy bill and are patterned in white and glossy blacks, but the sexes differ in the colour of the iris. In Australia, it is sometimes called a jabiru although that name refers to a stork species found in the Americas. It is one of the few storks that is strongly territorial when feeding.

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