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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.
Aug 14, 2021 · Once found across South and Southeast Asia, the Greater Adjutant is one of the most threatened stork species in the world. There are only three known breeding grounds – one in Cambodia and two in India (Assam and Bihar).
Immense and imposing undertaker of a stork with a bare head and neck, pale eyes, and dark gray wings. Overlaps in some areas with similar but smaller Lesser Adjutant; note pale wing panel, paler heavier bill, prominent white neck ruff, and when in flight, grayer and less contrasting underwing.
Greater Adjutant Facts Overview. Once common across Southern and Southeast Asia, the Greater Adjutant is now wiped out in the majority of their range, and breeding populations now occupy only a single state in India and part of Northeastern Cambodia. These storks are enormous.
Dec 6, 2016 · The Greater Adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius) could once be found from India to Southeast Asia in the hundreds of thousands. Long despised and treated as a pest, this giant, ungainly bird is ...
Although historically widespread across the South and South-East Asian subcontinents, Leptoptilos dubius is now confined to two isolated subpopulations: (1) in north-east India; and (2) in Cambodia.
Mar 29, 2021 · In the Indian state of Assam, a group of women known as the Hargila Army is spearheading a conservation effort to rescue the endangered greater adjutant stork.
A new film by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Center for Conservation Media tells the story of a wildlife photographer who travels to India intent on documenting the rarest stork on earth, but soon discovers a conservation hero and her inspiring efforts to rally a community to save it.
Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species.
Nov 23, 2022 · Barman, a wildlife biologist, has devoted much of her career to saving the endangered greater adjutant stork, the second-rarest stork species in the world. Photo: UNEP/Diego Rotmistrovksy Conflict between people and wildlife is one of the main threats to wildlife species, according to a 2021 report from the World Wildlife Fund and the United ...
