Watch a Lesser Adjutant stork catch and eat a snake in the fields near Biunsa, Cuncolim in the South of Goa, India.
Lesser Adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus)
- The lesser adjutant stalks around wetlands feeding mainly on fish, frogs, reptiles, large invertebrates, rodents, small mammals and rarely carrion.
- Location of prey appears to be entirely visual, with one observation of storks sitting on telegraphic poles apparently scanning a marsh for prey.
- The nest is a large platform of sticks placed on a tall tree.
- The nest diameter is more than a metre and up to a metre deep.
- They are largely silent but have been noted to clatter their bill, hiss and moan at the nest.
- During one of the threat displays called the "Arching display" that is given in the presence of intruders, adults extend their neck and sometimes give a hoarse wail.
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