Storm's Stork (Ciconia stormi)
Family: CICONIIDAE
A small, worldwide family of very large birds with long powerful beaks. They have long legs, broad wings, and short tails. They feed mostly on fish or small animals, which they catch while stalking quietly in open wet areas.

Storks are strong fliers and several species migrate over large distances. They are experts at soaring on thermals and often circle high in the sky, gaining height for easy travel, or searching for likely feeding places.

There are four resident species in the Greater Sundas and three doubtful vagrants.

Description: Large (80 cm) black and white stork with slightly upturned, red bill. Wings, back, crown, and breast black; throat, nape, belly, and tail white. Bare facial skin pinkish red, especially in breeding season. Bare eye-ring is yellow. Distinguished from Woolly-necked Stork by black side of neck, yellow eye-ring, lack of white forehead, and redder bill, but note Javan form of Woolly-necked Stork also has reddish bill and reaches S Sumatra. Immature has black plumage replaced by brown.
Iris-red; bill-red; legs and feet-pink.

Voice: Bill clapping.

Range: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

Distribution and status: Sparsely distributed in freshwater swamp and swamp forests in lowlands of Sumatra (including Mentawai) and Borneo. One record from W Java in 1920 (specimen in Bogor museum).

Habits: Frequents dense swamp forests and nests in colonies.