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  2. Marabou stork - Wikipedia

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    The marabou stork is a massive bird: large specimens are thought to reach a height of 152 centimetres (5 feet) and a weight of 9 kg (20 lb). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] A wingspan of 3.7 m (12 ft) was accepted by Fisher and Peterson, who ranked the species as having the largest wing-spread of any living bird.

  3. Leptoptilos - Wikipedia

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    The name means thin (lepto) feather (ptilos). Two species are resident breeders in southern Asia, and the marabou stork is found in Sub-Saharan Africa. These are huge birds, typically 110–150 cm tall with a 210–250 cm wingspan. The three species each have a black upper body and wings, and white belly and undertail.

  4. Greater adjutant - Wikipedia

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    The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae.Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa.Once found widely across southern Asia and mainland southeast Asia, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only three breeding populations; two in India, one in the north-eastern state of Assam and a ...

  5. List of storks - Wikipedia

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    Painted stork Ciconiidae is a family of heavy-bodied, large-billed wading birds in the monotypic order Ciconiiformes. Most species in the family are called storks, although some have different common names: two species in the genus Anastomus are known as openbills, two from the genus Leptoptilos are called adjutants, and three species are called jabiru. Storks are found in tropical and ...

  6. Stork - Wikipedia

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    Storks range in size from the marabou, which stands 152 cm (60 in) tall and can weigh 8.9 kg (19 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb), to the Abdim's stork, which is only 75 cm (30 in) high and weighs only 1.3 kg (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 lb). Their shape is superficially similar to the herons, with long legs and necks, but they are more heavy-set.

  7. Leptoptilos falconeri - Wikipedia

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    Leptoptilos falconeri is an extinct species of large-bodied stork that existed during the Pliocene, having persisted until just over 2.58 million years ago.Although not the oldest fossil species of the genus Leptoptilos (as several date to earlier times such as the Miocene) it was the first fossil species of the genus to be described (found in cave deposits in India).

  8. Lappet-faced vulture - Wikipedia

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    The lappet-faced vulture or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) is an Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.

  9. File : Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) head.jpg

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