adjutant stork
adjutant bird

In the 1800s, Adjutant Storks were extremely common within the city of Calcutta during the summer and rainy season.

This approach is now saving the chicks of carnivorous lesser adjutant storks, which remain in small numbers only in India and Thailand.

The old emblem of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation included two Adjutant Storks facing each other.

These include the IUCN-listed vulnerable species, such as the Lesser Adjutant Stork.

Over 120 species of birds have been listed in the sanctuary, which includes Kingfishers, Fishing eagles, Adjutant storks and abundant varieties of ducks.

Among the birds seen here are: the Greater Adjutant Stork, Pelican, Siberian Crane and the Whistling Teal.

Lesser adjutant stork, Grey-headed Fish-eagle Peninsular bay owl, Broad-billed roller and Great pied hornbill.

Batu Pahat is a sanctuary for the endangered Lesser Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos javanicus).

The more than 250 bird species include the Chinese Egret, Lesser Adjutant Stork, many species of Kingfisher and White-winged Wood Duck.

There are several 'ranges', but the central and most accessible one generally offers the best viewing chances for rhinos, elephants and swamp deer along with plenty of bird life, including greater adjutant storks (take binoculars).

Adjutants Stork, Indian Owl, Myna, Parrakit, Dove, Hornbil, Jungle Fowl, Kingfisher, Harren, Darter, Snipe and Teal are the birds commonly found.

They support critically endangered and vulnerable species including Bengal tiger, Smooth-coated otter, Eurasian otter, Swamp deer, Lesser Adjutant stork, Marsh crocodile, Red-crowned roofed turtle and Three-striped roofed turtle.

Notable among the 485 bird species are Watercock, Indian nightjar, Dusky eagleowl, Black-headed cuckooshrike, Whitetailed stonechat, Striated grassbird, Large adjutant stork, Pallas's fish eagle, Common golden-eye, and Gullbilled tern.

In addition, a number of rare birds are present: surveys have confirmed the presence of green peafowl, greater and lesser adjutant storks, sarus cranes, oriental pied hornbills, giant ibises, white-shouldered ibises, milky and wooly-necked storks, and vulture sp.

The Sittang River in Burma was said by E W Oates to have "millions" of pelicans in 1877 and in 1929 E C Stuart Baker reported that they were still nesting in thousands along with Greater Adjutant Storks:

"The Undertakers": A mugger crocodile, a jackal and an adjutant stork (erroneously referred to as a crane in the story), three of the most unpleasant characters on the river, spend an afternoon bickering with each other until some Englishmen arrive to settle some unfinished business with the crocodile.

Martha and I lacked the luck for a tiger, (one had been spotted that morning), but on our jeep tour and elephant ride we saw rhinos, elephants, water buffaloes, hog deer, swamp deer, sambars, monkeys, mongooses, Pallas's fish eagles, adjutant storks, hornbills, minivets and mynas.

Common species include bar-headed goose, grey leg goose, spot billed duck, mallard, gadwall, wigeon, gargany, shoveller, red-crested pochard, common pochard, ferruginous duck, adjutant stork, lesser adjutant stork, open-bill stork, and the white-necked stork.

"The Adjutant Bird" - Lillabulero 1, no. 3 (July 1967)