Yellow-billed Stork

Yellow-billed Stork
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Ciconiiformes
Family:	Ciconiidae
Genus:	Mycteria
Species:	M. ibis
Binomial name
Mycteria ibis (Linnaeus, 1766)

The Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It occurs in Africa south of the Sahara and in Madagascar. Its a medium-sized stork. Length: 97 cm; average body weight for males: 2.3 kg; for females: 1.9 kg. Plumage mainly pinkish-white with black wings and tail; bill yellow, blunt, and decurved at tip. Immature birds are greyish brown with dull greyish brown bill, dull orange face and brownish legs. The similar Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is an Asian bird.

The Yellow-billed Stork is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

Gallery

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  Kazinga Channel, Uganda

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  Juvenile yellow-billed storks have grey backs, mature birds have white backs.

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  Yellow-billed storks can fish by standing in shallow water.

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  Juvenile Yellow-billed stork - Mycteria ibis

References

1. ^ BirdLife International (2008). Mycteria ibis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 January 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

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