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Common Name

Asian Openbilled Stork

Alternate Names

Asian Openbill

Common Type

Stork

Order

Ciconiiformes

Family

Ciconiidae

Genus

Anastomus

Species

oscitans

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Location Photographed

Myanmar 1, Bangladesh 1, Myanmar 2, Sri Lanka 1

Number of Sub-Species

0

Migratory or Resident

Resident but will make distant movements for availability of water.

Preferred Habitat

Flooded crop fields, irrigation canals, marshes and rarely on river banks and tidal flats.

Distribution and Range

India subccontinent and Southeast Asia

Food

Aquatic snails and freshwater mussels but will also take frogs, crabs, fish, worms, insects and terrestrial snails.

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