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Openbill Storks and White Ibis perched on prosopis trees
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Openbill Storks and White Ibis perched on prosopis trees
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It is a large white marsh bird with naked black head and neck. It has a long, stout, black, down curved curlew-like bill. Both the sexes are alike. It is seen around marshy land. It walks about actively on marshy land probing with its bill into the mud, mandibles partly open like forceps. It often feeds in shallow water with its head momentarily submerged.
Like storks and the spoonbill, it lacks true voice-producing mechanism and is silent except for peculiar ventriloquial grunts uttered when nesting. It nesting period is from
June to August in North India and November to February in South India. Its nest is made of twigs and in trees standing in or near water. Its eggs are bluish or greenish white.
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