stork

1. Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage (synset 102004729)
   is a type of: wader, wading bird - any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
   subtypes:

   • ciconia ciconia, white stork - the common stork of Europe; white with black wing feathers and a red bill
   • black stork, ciconia nigra - Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below
   • adjutant, adjutant bird, adjutant stork, leptoptilus dubius - large Indian stork with a military gait
   • leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork, marabout - large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
   • openbill - stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip
   • jabiru, jabiru mycteria - large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America
   • ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru, saddlebill - large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle
   • black-necked stork, jabiru, policeman bird, xenorhyncus asiaticus - large mostly white Australian stork
   • flinthead, mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
   belongs to: ciconiidae, family ciconiidae - storks

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