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Painted stork

Mycteria leucocephala

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Description:

the Painted storks of India fly with their neck outstretched.....When hunting, the stork puts its head inside the water, with its bill being partly open. The bird keeps swinging its head back and forth in the water, till it catches a prey....the painted stork is protected by law here

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Please add the scientific name: Mycteria leucocephala to it. Thanks.
Beautiful capture Ashok!
painted stork feed mainly on fish ,....but frogs and snail....to are part of the diet....

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