The Jabirus is related to the herons and ibises and are found in most of the warmer parts of the ausitralia. Jabirus have long, broad, powerful wings; in flight they flap their wings or soar with their legs dangling and their long necks bent back in an S shape. They feed on fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and insects, which they catch with quick thrusts of their long, heavy bills. Having no syrinx muscles, storks are mute—though they produce a clattering noise by snapping their bills. jabiru, of the tropics, has a white-and-black body and naked black head.
Other storks!
In Europe the white stork, Ciconia ciconia, (c.40 in./100 cm long, with red bill and legs) is regarded as a good omen, particularly of fertility, and is encouraged to build its platform nest on housetops. It is common from Holland to the Balkans. The black stork of Eurasia, is smaller and wilder. Largest of the family are the saddle-billed stork of Africa and the adjutant storks of S Asia and tropical Africa, so named (despite their untidy head feathers) for their upright military bearing. One Indian species, called also marabou, has soft tail feathers used in millinery and once popular for making feather boas. Adjutant storks are valued and protected as scavengers. Storks are classified in the phylum Chordata phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development.
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2006-09-13 17:28:01
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answered by Anonymous
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The jabiru, black-necked stork, is Australia's only native stork. they are a tall, black and white, waterbird more prominently found in the northern areas.
there is a town in the Northern Territory named after this beautiful bird.
Wikipedia says this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-necked_Stork
There is an american bird called Jabiru too....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabiru
2006-09-13 17:10:37
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answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6
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