Milky Stork

Milk Stork ( Mycteria cinerea)

The milk Stork ( Mycteria cinerea ) is a Southeast Asian glutton ( Mycteria ).

Features

The milk Stork is a white bird with yellow beak, red face and black flight feathers. He is 90 to 100 inches long and two and a half kilograms. As a dietary primarily include fish, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans and insects.

Occurrence

The milk stork lives in Cambodia, the peninsula of Malaysia and the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sumbawa, Sulawesi and Buton. He holds on to flat spots of lakes, streams, and on densely vegetated banks and seacoasts and nests on trees on the banks and, increasingly, in the vicinity of human settlements.

Reproduction

In India, the milk stork nests from July to August; in the southern parts nesting is linked to the onset of the monsoon from November to March. The colony consists of up to a hundred nests. The milk stork nests often with herons, ibises and cormorants.

Stock

The species is classified as endangered. At risk from the loss of coastal habitat by hunting and trade. The stock is estimated at 5500-6100 animals.