Colored stork

Colored stork
Great Stork ( Mycteria leucocephala )
Systematics
Class : Birds (aves) Order : Ciconiiformes Family : Storks (Ciconiidae) Genre : Gluttonous ( Mycteria ) Type : Colored stork
Scientific name
Mycteria leucocephala
( Pennant , 1769)

Young bird not yet colored

A colony of colored storks

The Painted Stork ( Mycteria leucocephala ) is a living in tropical Asia glutton .

features

The colored stork reaches a body length of 95 to 100 centimeters. He flies with his neck stretched out.

The plumage of the stork is white with black wing feathers and has a checkerboard-like black and white pattern on the front edge of the wing and on the chest. Another characteristic is the pink tint of the wings and back. The color of the bent beak is yellow, that of the bare skin of the face is reddish-orange. The legs are pink.

Young birds still have a dark gray facial skin and predominantly light gray upper plumage.

Occurrence

The colored stork is found in Sri Lanka , India , Indochina and in southern China. It lives on freshwater lakes, swamps and rice fields.

food

When hunting, the colored stork walks slowly through shallow water or through wet meadows and looks for prey consisting of fish, frogs and large insects. When wading, it swings its half-open beak back and forth and closes it as soon as it touches a fish.

The food requirements of the young birds are extremely high. You need an amount of food that corresponds to 50 to 60% of your body weight per day. This high need for food has led to the name very hungry for the genus.

Reproduction

The colored stork breeds in wetlands on trees in densely populated breeding colonies. In the eyrie, a large platform made of sticks with a flat, central hollow, 2–5 eggs are laid. The incubation period is 27 days.

Duration

The stock situation of the colored stork is classified as nt (= near threatened - potentially endangered).

literature

• W. Grummt , H. Strehlow (Ed.): Zoo animal keeping birds. Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8171-1636-2 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Buntstorch  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Buntstorch  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Mycteria leucocephala in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed September 18 2016th
• Videos, photos and sound recordings of Mycteria leucocephala in the Internet Bird Collection

Single receipts

1. ↑ W. Grummt, H. Strehlow (Ed.): Zoo animal keeping birds . Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8171-1636-2 . P. 98
2. ↑ Mycteria leucocephala in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed September 18 2016th