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Asian Open-billed Stork

By Charlie December 24, 2008 No comments yet

The Asian Open-billed Stork Anastomus oscitans (sometimes referred to as simply the Asian Openbill) is a resident breeder around inland wetlands in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Southeast Asia. These three birds were photographed at Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, southern India in December

Like all storks it flies with its neck outstretched [...]

Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, southern India. 04 Dec 2008

By Charlie December 12, 2008 13 comments

Vedanthangal (pronounced Ved-uhn-tangle) Bird Sanctuary is about 85km south-west of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, southern India (which sounds all sounds very exotic don’t you think?), and is centred around a 30ha ‘tank‘, an artificial lake used for crop irrigation, that is visited by tens of thousands of breeding waterbirds in late-winter.

It’s actually India’s [...]

Milky Stork, Singapore

By Charlie November 6, 2008 8 comments

When I was at Singapore’s wonderful (and, as more mangroves are cut down, increasingly important) Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve a few days ago, I came across a Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea feeding quietly in a low-tide channel in the middle of the reserve. Like (I suspect) many readers of 10,000 Birds I knew very little [...]