Staffan Widstrand / Painted storks (Mycteria leucocephala) group, Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India, January 2013.

Ernie Janes / Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) Yala NP, Sri Lanka

Laurent Geslin / Painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) flying, Barathpur, Rajasthan, India.

Laurent Geslin / Painted stork flying {Mycteria leucocephala} India

Laurent Geslin / Painted stork flying {Mycteria leucocephala} India

Terry Whittaker / Painted Storks (Mycteria leucocephala) Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre, Cambodia, captive.

Axel Gomille / Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) and Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) with baby Marsh Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) head in water in the background. India

Axel Gomille / Painted Storks (Mycteria leucocephala), mating, Karnataka, India

Axel Gomille / Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala), Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) and other waterbirds, mixed colony, Cauvery river, Karnataka, India

John Downer / Glider painted to look like a stork used for remote aerial shots for 'In-Flight Movie', UK, 1986

John Downer / Clive Hall preparing glider painted to look like a stork for remote control aerial filming for 'In-Flight Movie', with Stonehenge in background, Wiltshire, England, UK, 1986

Bernard Castelein / Painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in flight, bringing water to its thirsty chicks, Keoladeo Ghana NP, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India