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Painted stork Ciconiidae is a family of heavy-bodied, large-billed wading birds in the monotypic order Ciconiiformes. Most species in the family are called storks, although some have different common names: two species in the genus Anastomus are known as openbills, two from the genus Leptoptilos are called adjutants, and three species are called jabiru. Storks are found in tropical and ...
Purnima Devi Barman is a wildlife biologist from Assam, India. She is known for her conservation work with the greater adjutant stork ( Leptoptilos dubius ), known locally as the Hargila. She is the founder of the Hargila Army, an all-female conservation initiative.
Leptoptilos falconeri is an extinct species of large-bodied stork that existed during the Pliocene, having persisted until just over 2.58 million years ago.Although not the oldest fossil species of the genus Leptoptilos (as several date to earlier times such as the Miocene) it was the first fossil species of the genus to be described (found in cave deposits in India).
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The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae.Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa.Once found widely across southern Asia and mainland southeast Asia, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only three breeding populations; two in India, one in the north-eastern state of Assam and a ...
Debate over the relation between the Liang Bua specimen and other stork species was compared using the size measurements of the fragments found to extant species. It can be inferred from the recorded dimensions of the bones that L. robustus was substantially taller and heavier than other species of Leptoptilos , which reach a maximum weight of ...
The lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.Like other members of its genus, it has a bare neck and head. It is however more closely associated with wetland habitats where it is solitary and is less likely to scavenge than the related greater adjutant.