Common Name: Asian Openbill
Scientific Name: Anastomus oscitans
Nepali Name: Dhungifoor Garud ( धुँगीफोर गरूड )
Size: 68 cm
Location: Chitwan, Nepal
Asian Openbill is found below 250m altitude and around marshes, lakes, and wetlands. With a white body during the breeding season and greyish in color during the non-breeding season, glossy black wings and tail, pink legs.
As the name suggests the adult birds have a gap between the arched upper mandible and the curved lower.
Please feel free to comment below if the above species has been misidentified.
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