Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World

Conservation; courtship and reproduction; feeding behaviour; American wood stork - mycteria americana; milky stork - mycteria cinerea; yellowbilled stork - mycteria ibis; painted stork - mycteria leucocephala; African openbill stork - anastomus oscitans; Asian openbill stork - anastomus lamelligerus; black stork - ciconia nigra; adbim's stork - ciconia abdimii; woolynecked stork - ciconia episcopus; storm's stork - ciconia stormi; maguari stork - ciconia maguari; white stork - ciconia ciconia; oriental white stork - ciconia boyciana; blacknecked stork - ephippiorhynchus asiaticus; saddlebill stork - ephipporhynchus sengalensis; jabiru stork - jabiru myceteria; lesser adjutant stork - leptopilos javanicus; greater adjutant stork - leptoptilos dubius; marabou stork; leptoptilos crumeniferus; shoebill - balaeniceps rex; American white ibis - eudocimus ruber; barefaced ibis - phimosus infuscatus; glossy ibis - plegadis falcinellus; whitefaced ibis - plegadis chihi; puna ibis - plegadis ridgwayi; sharptailed ibis - cercibis oxycerca; plumbeous ibis - harpiprion caerulscens; buffnecked ibis - theristicus caudatus; green ibis - mesembrinibis cayennensis; hadada ibis - bostrychia hagedash; wattled ibis - bostrychia carunculata; oliv ibis - bostrychia olivacea; spotbreasted ibis - bostrychia reae madagascar crested this - loghotihis cristata; sacred this - threskiornis aethiopicus; oriental white ibis - threskionis melanoaphaius; Australian white ibis - threskiornis molucca; strawnecked ibis - threskiornis spinicollis; waldrapp ibis - geronticus eremita; bald ibis - geronticus calvus; black ibis - pseudibis papillosa; giant ibis - thaumatibis gigantea; oriential crested ibis - nipponia nippon; Eurasian spoonbill - platalea leucorodia; royal spoonbill - platalea regia; blackfaced spoonbill - platalea minor; African spoonbill - platalea alba; yellowbilled spoonbill - platalea flavipes; roseate spoonbill - platalea ajaja. Appendices of weights, measurements and breeding seasons.