Picturesque Friday 7 – Painted Stork

The painted stork is a large wader in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia. Their distinctive pink tertial feathers of the adults give them their name.

This image is clicked at Kumbhargaon, Bhigwan near Pune. Clicked in the backwaters of Ujni Dam. It is home to many migratory and local wetland birds.


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Published by Mukund Karadkhedkar

Engineer by profession and Wildlife Photographer by passion. Loves nature.

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