Oriental White Storks India

The Oriental Stork, Ciconia boyciana is a large, up to 115cm long, white bird with black wing feathers. It is closely related and resembles the European White Stork, of which it was formerly often treated as a subspecies. Unlike the latter species, it has red skin around its eye, a whitish iis and black bill.

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Its diets consist mainly of fish, frogs and small animals. The Oriental Stork is a solitary bird except during the breeding season. The female lays 2 to 6 eggs and is slightly smaller than male. The young is white with an orange bill.

Oriental White Storks India

At one time, the Oriental Stork could be found in Japan, China, Korea and Russia. It is now extinct in Japan and South Korea. After breeding, the storks migrate to eastern China in September and returning in March.

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The scientific name commemorates Robert Henry Boyce.
Due to habitat loss and overhunting, the Oriental Stork is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix I of CITES.

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5 Endangered Birds We Must Never Let Go Extinct

Oriental Stork

Oriental Stork

 Found in the lowland forests and wetlands of many Asian countries, this long-necked, long-legged bird has seen its numbers dwindle sharply due to deforestation and wetlands draining. Roughly 50 oriental storks live in the wild, and 100 are kept in a public park in Toyooka, Japan.

California Condor

California Condor

While just 279 condors exist in the wild today, it’s a vast improvement since the late 1980s, when the population of the largest flying bird in the Western Hemisphere dipped to 22. No wild condors existed between 1988 and 1991, but reintroduction began a year later and continues today. Still, a leading threat to condor recovery is lead poisoning from ingestion of ammunition.

Yellow Eared Parrot

Yellow Eared Parrot

Thought to be all but extinct in 1999 due to its popularity in the exotic pet trade industry, this aerial beauty is one of Latin America’s most successful conservation efforts. Today more than 1,000 specimens live in wax palm trees in the cloud forests of the Colombian Andes.

Blue-Throated Macaw

Blue-Throated Macaw

Classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the total wild population of the blue-throated macaw is believed to only be 250. This stunning species, which usually lives in bonded pairs, has two main threats: destruction of the bird’s ecosystem from cattle ranching in the bird’s Bolivian ecosystem and the illegal worldwide pet trade.

Galápagos Penguins

Galápagos Penguins

The population of the only penguin to live in the Northern Hemisphere has taken quite a blow since the 1970s, decreasing by an estimated 50 percent. While habitat loss and competition for food from invasive species are part of the penguin’s daily struggle, one conservation group is doing its best to ensure sunny skies are on the bird’s horizon. In October 2010 biologists from the University of Washington constructed more than 120 nesting sites for the penguins in an effort to give them a fighting chance against predators. Scientists estimate that only 2,000 specimens exist in the wild.