Adjutants and Marabou
Leptoptilos
Leptoptilos is a genus of very large tropical storks. The name means thin (lepto) feather (ptilos). Two species are resident breeders in southern Asia, and the marabou stork is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Marabou Stork
speciesLeptoptilos crumenifer
Lesser Adjutant
speciesLeptoptilos javanicus
Greater Adjutant
speciesLeptoptilos dubius
Leptoptilos robustus
speciesLeptoptilos robustus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4748.