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The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and long neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. In both cases, a feathered head would become rapidly clotted with blood and other substances when the bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to ...
Leptoptilos is a genus of very large tropical storks, commonly known as adjutants.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.
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 ...
Mycteria storks, like this yellow-billed stork, have sensitive bills that allow them to hunt by touch. 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 ...
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 ...
Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel, published in the UK in 1995. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first-person account of the past and a more surreal , stream-of-consciousness account of an otherworldly present.
Marabou (weed), or el marabú in Cuba, the legume Dichrostachys cinerea; Marabou stork, a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae; Marabou (fashion), downy feathers used as a fashion trimming. Historically known as "marabout." Marabou, a collection of poems by Nikos Kavvadias; Marabou, a thrown silk typically dyed in the gum or a fabric made ...
Leptoptilos robustus (from lepto [Greek: thin, slender] + ptilo [Greek: soft feather] and robustus [Latin: strong]) is an extinct species of large-bodied stork belonging to the genus Leptoptilos that lived on the island of Flores in Indonesia during the Pleistocene epoch. It stood at about 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall and weighed up to an estimated ...