Milky Stork

Milky Stork is a stork inhabiting predominantly mangroves in Southeast Asia, native to Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is about 91–97 cm tall, with a tail of about 14.5–17 cm. Its plumage is white apart from a few feathers at the wings and tail (Wikipedia, general species account). The milky stork was formerly placed in the genus Ibis, with the binomial name Ibis cinereus. is now included in the Mycteria due to large similarities in appearance and behaviour to the three other storks in this genus (the wood stork, yellow-billed stork, and painted stork). (Wikipedia, general species account).

In the northern part of its range around Vietnam, milky storks occasionally occur in sympatry with the closely related and morphologically similar painted storks. The young utter a froglike croak when begging for food. The milky stork's range is restricted to Southeast Asia, where it is widely but patchily distributed. One perfect adult male milky stork specimen from Setul in Peninsula Thailand taken from 1935 was later found among collections of the Zoological Reference Collection at the National University of Singapore, suggesting that the species was formerly resident here. (Wikipedia, general species account).