Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus

Asian Woolly-necked Stork
Asian Woolly-necked Stork
The Asian Woolly-necked Stork is native to India and Southeast Asia. It has iridescent magenta and green plumage on its chest, back and wings.
Asian Woolly-necked Stork
Asian Woolly-necked Stork
Previously just the "Woolly-necked Stork", the African subspecies was split into a separate species (C. microscelis) in 2023 and both renamed Asian or African.
Woolly-necked Stork
Woolly-necked Stork
Woolly-necked Stork chick
The Asian species has a cleaner (not speckled) border to the black cap.
Woolly-necked Stork Height is 0.8-0.9 metre.
Woolly-necked Stork The woolly neck on adult stork (with ear)
Woolly-necked Stork chick and on stork chicks.