Black-necked Stork

The black-necked stork is a tall, long-necked wading bird, a resident across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a separate population in Australia, where it is called the jabiru. It lives in wetlands and near fields of crops such as rice and wheat, foraging for a wide range of animal prey. Adults of both sexes have a heavy bill and white and iridescent black plumage, and the female has a yellow iris and the male a dark one (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is one of the few storks that are strongly territorial when feeding and breeding. Two subspecies are recognised. Nationally Critically Endangered (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012).