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Openbill Stork

  • Anastomus

    The name Anastomus is from the Ancient Greek anastomoō meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened".
    The mandibles of these birds do not meet except at the tip, or there is a gap between the arched upper mandible and recurved lower mandible.

    1/ Asian openbill or Asian openbill stork (Cò nhạn, Cò ốc, Anastomus oscitans)
    The specific epithet oscitans is the Latin word for "yawning".

    Ciconiiformes, Ciconiidae: from Latin ciconia for stork.

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