Black-necked Stork

The black-necked stork is a tall, long-necked stork standing 110–137cm with a wingspan of 190–218cm. Adults have a glossy bluish-black head, neck, secondaries and tail with a coppery-brown crown, a bright white back and belly, bright red legs and a heavy black bill with a slightly concave upper edge. The sexes are identical except for the eye: females have a yellow iris and males a dark brown one. Juveniles are brownish, with a smaller, straighter bill. In Australia it is called the jabiru (Wikipedia, general species account).

It lives in wetlands and near fields of crops such as rice and wheat, foraging for a wide range of animal prey, and it is one of the few storks that are strongly territorial both when feeding and when breeding (Wikipedia, general species account).