Family
Ciconiidae
Description
Adult females have yellow eyes, males black eyes. Young birds are brown during their first year. Adults are black and white with red legs.
Habits
Diurnal, Pairs often display to each other by quivering wings and clapping beaks. Live food is persued through the water and stabbed, chopped and pulverised with the huge beak before being swallowed.
Habitat
Wetland Coastal, Marshes; Mangroves; Estuaries; Beaches; Billabongs; Creeks and Rivers and flooded areas; Inland waters and fringing forests; floodplains. Paperbark forests, close to the adjacent floodplains, provide nesting sites for the Jabiru. Often hunts alone or in pairs but does congregate in large numbers on dry season swamps. Can be seen soaring very high on thermal currents. Will perch for hours on high rocks.
Notes
This bird is the only true Stork in Australia. It is also found right through Indonesia to Asia and India. Its common name in Australia is the Jabiru.@
Breeding
February to October, 2 to 4 eggs in a large stick nest high in a tree, often in a swamp. Both sexes incubate the eggs. Young fly after 100-115 days
Parks
Kakadu National Park
Diet
Carnivore, Fish crabs carrion; Eels; Water Snakes; Frogs; Small Reptiles; Small Mammals and Larger Insects.
Details
Common Name: |
Black-necked Stork, Jabiru |
Scientific Name: |
Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus |
Sub Order: |
Unavailable |
Order: |
Ciconiiformes |
Class: |
Aves |
Category: |
Native |
Status: |
Least Concern |
Size: |
1.4 m high |
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