Black-necked Stork
Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus (Latham, 1790)
Ciconiidae — Storks
Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, breeds from India through Southeast Asia to Australia. It is a stork of wetlands and also uses farmland beside crops such as rice and wheat. Adults of both sexes have a heavy bill and a pattern of white and iridescent black. The sexes can be told apart by the iris, which is yellow in females and dark in males. In Australia it is called a jabiru, though that name is also used for a stork from the Americas. It is among the storks that defend feeding and breeding areas strongly.
- Order
- Ciconiiformes
- Family
- Ciconiidae — Storks
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region, Australasia: India to Australia
