asian openbill

From archives. Image cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted and minimally sharpened. Thank you for your kind appreciation of my previous posts.

This great myna looks pretty comfortable in the midst of the asian openbills.

goa 2013

Lakescape Fully independent immature ... The 'teenager' was managing his feeding well though ... ... the tell tale gap between the mandibles is yet to appear ... Captured on the bank of River Ganga ... ____________ Asian Openbill Garh Mukteshwar Uttar Pradesh India 27 October 2011

Asian Openbill Stork - BIF God is good! Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grr8photography/

See these every day its like a dirty White Stork

Asian Openbill ------------------------------------------------- Danesh Manjula http://www.birdwatchinginsrilanka.com/blog

Full frame image of an Asian Openbill in flight

This is a large wading bird in the stork family. this bird id found mainly in the subcontinent and southeast asia.

There was a small flock of Asian Openbills near my home on the edge of a large marshy area

Non-breeding adult. A new record for Singapore when a flock of 8 birds was sighted on 22 January around Pulau Punggol Barat. This bird was part of a flock of 6 birds sighted a few kilometres south of Pulau Punggol Barat on 23 January. Settings: 1458mm ISO100 1/15s f/6.6 0EV.

Adult non-breeding. Vagrant in Malaysia. First time sighted in Malacca and so far south of the peninsula. Settings: 1458mm ISO100 1/100s f/6.6 0EV.

Wonder how it keeps its' food between the two bills with such a wide gap between the upper and lower bills....

I just returned from a short trip to Cambodia to visit the Tonle Sap Lake and Prek Toal floating village and Biosphere. I was a bit late as the water levels were too low to get into the heart of the Biopshere where most of the birds were nesting but we saw lots of birds anyway. I've put a short...

A common species throughout Sri Lanka where on some tanks we saw resting flocks of hundreds of birds.