Large Painted Stork–Photographs

This large stork has a heavy yellow bill with a down-curved tip that gives it a resemblance to an ibis. The head of the adult is bare and orange or reddish in color. The long tertials are tipped in bright pink and at rest they extend over the back and rump. There is a distinctive black breast band with white scaly markings. The band continues into the under wing coverts and the white tips of the black coverts give it the appearance of white stripes running across the under wing lining.

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