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{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{cs1 config|name-list-style=vanc}} {{pp|small=yes}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Anastomus oscitans'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22697661A93628985 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697661A93628985.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | image = Pair of Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans) by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg | image_caption = Pair (India) | taxon = Anastomus oscitans | authority = ([[Pieter Boddaert|Boddaert]], 1783) | range_map = Asian Openbill.JPG | range_map_caption = {{legend0|#C6514A|range|outline=gray}} }} The '''Asian openbill''' or '''Asian openbill stork''' ('''''Anastomus oscitans''''') is a large wading [[bird]] in the [[stork]] family [[Ciconiidae]]. This distinctive stork is found mainly in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is greyish or white with glossy black wings and tail. Adults have a gap between the arched upper mandible and recurved lower mandible which is thought to be an adaptation that aids in the handling of [[snail]]s, their main [[predation|prey]]. Young birds are born without this gap. Although resident within their [[range (biology)|range]], they make long distance movements in response to weather and food availability. ==Taxonomy== [[File:Anastomus Zayn Al Din.jpg|thumb|left|1781 illustration by [[Sheikh Zainuddin]]]] The Asian openbill was described by the French polymath [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] in 1780 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux'' from a specimen collected in [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondichery]], India.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1780 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=14 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | pages=147–149 | chapter=Le bec-ouvert | language=fr | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42337835 }}</ref> The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by [[François-Nicolas Martinet]] in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of [[Edme-Louis Daubenton]] to accompany Buffon's text.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | chapter=Le bec ouvert de Pondichery | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle | volume=10 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | at=Plate 932 | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35223609 }}</ref> Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist [[Pieter Boddaert]] coined the [[binomial name]] ''Ardea oscitans'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | place=Utrecht | page=55, Number 932 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822675 | language=fr }}</ref> The Asian openbill is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Anastomus]]'' that was erected by the French naturalist [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Pierre Bonnaterre]] in 1791.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Bonnaterre | first1=Pierre Joseph | author1-link=Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre | last2=Vieillot | first2=Louis Pierre | author2-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1823 | title=Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Ornithologie | volume=Part 1 | language=fr | location=Paris | publisher=Panckoucke | page=xciii | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51114668 }} Although the title page bears the date of 1823 the section (''livraison'') containing the description was published in 1791. See: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=78 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, cormorants, darters | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/storks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=16 July 2019 }}</ref> The genus name ''Anastomus'' is from the [[Ancient Greek]] αναστομοω ''anastomoō'' meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened". The specific epithet ''oscitans'' is the Latin word for "yawning".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n46 46], 286}}</ref> ==Description== The Asian openbill stork is predominantly greyish (non-breeding season) or white (breeding season) with glossy black wings and tail that have a green or purple sheen. The name is derived from the distinctive gap formed between the recurved lower and arched upper mandible of the beak in adult birds. Young birds do not have this gap. The cutting edges of the mandible have a fine brush like structure that is thought to give them better grip on the shells of snails.<ref name=tomia>{{cite journal|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v105n02/p0316-p0324.pdf |journal= Wilson Bulletin| volume=105| issue=2| year=1993| pages=316–324| title=Scopate tomia: an adaptation for handling hard-shelled prey?|author=Gosner KL}}</ref> The tail consists of twelve feathers and the [[uropygial gland|preen gland]] has a tuft.<ref>{{cite journal| title= Some Notes upon the Anatomy and Systematic Position of the Ciconiine Genus Anastomus|author=Beddard, F.E.|year=1901| doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08551.x |volume= 70| issue=1| pages=365–371| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31591337}}</ref> The mantle is black and the [[beak|bill]] is horn-grey. At a distance, they can appear somewhat like a [[white stork]] or [[Oriental stork]]. The short legs are pinkish to grey, reddish prior to breeding. Non-breeding birds have a smoky grey wings and back instead of white. Young birds are brownish-grey and have a brownish mantle. Like other storks, the Asian openbill is a broad-winged soaring bird, which relies on moving between thermals of hot air for sustained flight. They are usually found in flocks but single birds are not uncommon. Like all storks, it flies with its neck outstretched. It is relatively small for a stork and stands at 68 cm height (81 cm long).<ref name=hbk>{{cite book| title=Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Volume 1|edition=2nd| publisher=Oxford University Press|place= New Delhi| year=1978|vauthors=Ali S, Ripley SD |pages=95–98}}</ref><ref name=fbi2>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/BakerFbiBirds6/BakerFBI6#page/n373/mode/1up| pages=333–334| title= The Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 6| edition=2nd| author=Baker, ECS| year=1929| publisher=Taylor and Francis| place= London}}</ref><ref name=fbi>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/birdsindia04oaterich#page/377/mode/1up/|pages=377–378|title=The Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 4| author=Blanford WT|year=1898| publisher=Taylor and Francis| place=London}}</ref> <gallery mode="packed"> File:Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans) by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg|Holding a snail File:Asian Openbill In Flight Habitat Kolkata Outskirt West Bengal India 09.09.2014.jpg|In flight over marsh habitat File:Anastomus oscitans-circling.jpg|In flight from below, [[Thailand]] </gallery> ==Habitat and distribution== The usual foraging habitats are inland [[wetland]]s and are only rarely seen along river banks and tidal flats. On agricultural landscapes, birds forage in crop fields, irrigation canals, and in seasonal marshes.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Sundar|first=K. S. Gopi|date=2006|title=Flock Size, Density and Habitat Selection of Four Large Waterbirds Species in an Agricultural Landscape in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implications for Management|jstor=4132592|journal=Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology|volume=29|issue=3|pages=365–374}}</ref> Birds may move widely in response to [[habitat]] conditions. Young birds also disperse widely after fledging. Individuals [[Bird ringing|ringed]] at [[Bharatpur district|Bharatpur]] in India have been recovered 800 km east and a bird ringed in Thailand has been recovered 1500 km west in Bangladesh.<ref name=hbk/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Ali, Salim |year=1959| title= Local movements of resident waterbirds| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 56| issue=2|pages=346–347|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47375252}}</ref> Storks are regularly disoriented by lighthouses along the southeast coast of India on overcast nights between August and September.<ref name=hbk/> The species is very rare in the Sind and Punjab regions of Pakistan, but widespread and common in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.<ref name=pcr>{{cite book|vauthors=Rasmussen PC, Anderton JC | year=2005| title=Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Volume 2| page=63| publisher=Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions| place= Washington DC and Barcelona}}</ref> It has recently expanded its range into southwestern [[China]].<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298703182_Rapid_range_expansion_of_Asian_Openbill_Anastomus_oscitans_in_China|Qiang, Liu & Buzzard, Paul & Luo, Xu. (2015). Rapid range expansion of Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans in China. Forktail. 31. 141-143.]</ref> In [[Lotus Lake Wetland Thirunavaya Malappuram|Thirunavaya Lotus Lake Wetland]] Malappuram district of [[Kerala]] state in [[India]], they are mostly seen in the months of September–February season<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/asian-openbill-says-no-to-other-migrants-at-tirunavaya/article65879458.ece | title=Asian openbill leaves no room for other migrants at Tirunavaya | newspaper=The Hindu | date=11 September 2022 | last1=Naha | first1=Abdul Latheef }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/pets-and-environment/030817/migrant-storks-find-thirunavaya-best-to-nest.html | title=Migrant storks find Thirunavaya best to nest | date=3 August 2017 }}</ref> Asian Openbills appear to be susceptible to dying during hailstorms. In Xishuangbanna, in south China, 45 Asian Openbills were counted dead after a hailstorm, but carcasses of other bird species were not seen.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Mingxia |last2=Wang |first2=Lin |last3=Li |first3=Jiabin |last4=Wang |first4=Qiaoyan |last5=Luo |first5=Aidong |date=2022 |title=Hail-induced mortality of Asian Openbill ( Anastomus oscitans ) in Southern Tropical China |journal=Ecology and Evolution |language=en |volume=12 |issue=6 |pages=e8983 |doi=10.1002/ece3.8983 |issn=2045-7758 |pmc=9188030 |pmid=35784080|bibcode=2022EcoEv..12E8983Z }}</ref> [[File:Asian openbill in Migratory Birds Sanctuary Thirunavaya.jpg|thumb|300px|Asian openbill in [[Lotus Lake Wetland Thirunavaya Malappuram|Thirunavaya Lotus Lake Wetland]]]] ==Food and foraging== [[File:Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans) in Uppalpadu, AP W IMG 2767.jpg|thumb|left|Nest colony (India)]] During the warmer part of the day, Asian openbills soar on thermals and have a habit of descending rapidly into their feeding areas. Groups may forage together in close proximity in shallow water or marshy ground on which they may walk with a slow and steady gait. The Asian openbill feeds mainly on large [[mollusc]]s, especially ''[[Pila (gastropod)|Pila]]'' species, and they separate the shell from the body of the snail using the tip of the beak. The tip of the lower mandible of the beak is often twisted to the right. This tip is inserted into the opening of the snail and the body is extracted with the bill still under water. [[Thomas C. Jerdon|Jerdon]] noted that they were able to capture snails even when blindfolded. The exact action being difficult to see, led to considerable speculation on the method used. Sir [[Julian Huxley]] examined the evidence from specimens and literature and came to the conclusion that the bill gap was used like a nutcracker. He held the rough edges of the bill as being the result of wear and tear from such actions.<ref>{{cite journal|author= Huxley, J |year=1960| title= The openbill's open bill: a teleonomic enquiry| journal= Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere|volume=88|pages=9–30}}</ref> Subsequent studies have dismissed this idea and the rough edge of the bill has been suggested as being an adaptation to help handle hard and slippery shells.<ref name=tomia/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kahl |first=M. P. |date=1971 |title=Food and feeding behavior of Openbill Storks |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01644077 |journal=Journal für Ornithologie |language=en |volume=112 |issue=1 |pages=21–35 |doi=10.1007/BF01644077 |bibcode=1971JOrni.112...21K |issn=1439-0361|url-access=subscription }}</ref> They forage for prey by holding their bill tips slightly apart and make rapid vertical jabs in shallow water often with the head and neck partially submerged. The gap in the bill is not used for handling snail shells and forms only with age. Young birds that lack a gap are still able to forage on snails. It has been suggested that the gap allows the tips to strike at a greater angle to increases the force that the tips can apply on snail shells. Smaller snails are often swallowed whole or crushed.<ref name=kahl>{{cite journal|journal=Journal of Ornithology|volume=112| issue=1| pages= 21–35| doi= 10.1007/BF01644077| title= Food and feeding behavior of Openbill Storks| author=Kahl MP|year = 1971|bibcode=1971JOrni.112...21K |s2cid=1484358}}</ref> At one location in Thailand, Asian Openbills discarded the male’s testes and female’s albumen glands of ''[[Pomacea canaliculata]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sawangproh |first=Weerachon |date=2021 |title=Notes on the foraging and feeding behaviours of the Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans) |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s43388-021-00045-2 |journal=Ornithology Research |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=42–45 |doi=10.1007/s43388-021-00045-2 |bibcode=2021OrniR..29...42S |issn=2662-673X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> They also feed on water snakes, [[frog]]s and large [[insect]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Mukherjee, Ajit Kumar |year=1974| title=Food-habits of water-birds of the Sundarban, 24 Parganas District, West Bengal, India-IV. Stork, Teal, Moorhen and Coot| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=71| issue=2| pages=188–200|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48286387}}</ref> When foraging on agricultural landscapes with a variety of habitats, Asian openbills preferentially use natural marshes and lakes (especially in the monsoon and winter), and irrigation canals (especially in the summer) as foraging habitat.<ref name=":1" /> ==Breeding== [[File:Asian open-billed storks (Anastomus oscitans) juvenile on right.jpg|thumb|right|Juvenile on the right. The gap between the mandibles develops with age.]] The breeding season is after the rains, during July to September in northern India and Nepal, and November to March in southern India and Sri Lanka.<ref name=":1" /> They may skip breeding in drought years. The Asian openbill breeds colonially, building a rough platform of sticks often on half-submerged trees (often ''Barringtonia'', ''Avicennia'' and ''Acacia'' species), typically laying two to four [[bird egg|eggs]]. The nesting trees are either shared with those of [[egret]]s, [[cormorant]]s and darters, or can be single-species colonies like in lowland Nepal.<ref name=":2" /> Nesting colonies are sometimes in highly disturbed areas such as inside villages and on trees located in crop fields.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The effect of human interference on the nesting of the openbill stork Anastomus oscitans at the Raiganj wildlife sanctuary, India| vauthors=Datta T, Pal BC | journal= Biological Conservation|volume= 64| issue= 2| year=1993| pages=149–154| doi=10.1016/0006-3207(93)90651-G | bibcode=1993BCons..64..149D }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Colonies are also found in small cities such as Udaipur in Rajassthan, India, which has several large artificial wetlands within the city limits.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mehta |first1=Kanishka |last2=Koli |first2=Vijay K. |last3=Kittur |first3=Swati |last4=Sundar |first4=K. S. Gopi |date=2024 |title=Can you nest where you roost? Waterbirds use different sites but similar cues to locate roosting and breeding sites in a small Indian city |journal=Urban Ecosystems |volume=27|issue=4 |pages=1279–1290 |doi=10.1007/s11252-023-01454-5 |bibcode=2024UrbEc..27.1279M }}</ref> In lowland Nepal, 13 colonies found in an agricultural landscape had an average colony size of 52, ranging from 5 nests to 130 nests.<ref name=":1" /> The majority of these colonies were located on ''Bombax ceiba'' trees, with much fewer located on ''Ficus religiosa'' and ''Dalbergia sissoo'' tree species. Asian openbills preferred trees that were much taller and bigger than trees that were available on the landscape, and selectively used wild and native tree species entirely avoiding species that were important for resources such as fruits (e.g. ''Mangifera indica'') despite such trees being much more common.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Koju|first1=Roshila|last2=Maharjan|first2=Bijay|last3=Gosai|first3=K.R.|last4=Kittur|first4=Swati|last5=Sundar|first5=K.S. Gopi|title=Ciconiiformes nesting on trees in cereal-dominated farmlands: the importance of scattered trees for heronries in lowland Nepal|journal=Waterbirds|year=2020|volume=42|issue=4|pages=355–365|doi=10.1675/063.042.0401|s2cid=210861485|doi-access=free}}</ref> Religious beliefs have secured important trees such as ''Ficus'' species, and agro-forestry has secured the most preferred species, ''Bombax ceiba'', that Asian openbills prefer to locate colonies in lowland Nepal.<ref name=":3" /> The [[bird nest|nests]] are close to each other leading to considerable aggressive interactions between birds on neighbouring nests. Both parents take turns in incubation, the eggs hatching after about 25 days. The chicks emerge with cream coloured down and are shaded by the loosely outspread and drooped wings of a parent.<ref name=hbk/> [[File:Asian Openbill in Nepal.jpg|thumb|A pair copulating ([[Nepal]])]] Initiation of nests in lowland Nepal was highly synchronized, with colonies started during July and August. Breeding success at nests in these colonies was impacted by proximity of colonies to human habitation, and the progression of the breeding season.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Sundar|first1=K.S. Gopi|last2=Koju|first2=Roshila|last3=Maharjan|first3=Bijay|last4=Marcot|first4=Bruce G.|last5=Kittur|first5=Swati|last6=Gosai|last7=Kamal Raj|date=2019|title=First assessment of factors affecting the breeding success of two stork species in lowland Nepal using Bayesian Network models|url=https://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wildfowl/article/view/2690/pdf_159 |journal=Wildfowl|volume=69|pages=45–69}}</ref> Colonies closer to human habitation had lower success, and colonies initiated later during the breeding season (when flooding of the rice fields had reduced to allow ripening of the crop) had lower success. Number of chicks that fledged from colonies located on trees in agricultural landscapes in lowland Nepal were similar to that observed in a protected, mangrove reserve in eastern India suggesting that agricultural areas are not always detrimental to large waterbirds such as Asian openbills.<ref name=":0" /> Nesting openbills in Nepal took an average of 27 minutes to return to nests with food for nestlings and fledglings.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Sundar|first1=K. S. Gopi|last2=Maharjan|first2=Bijay|last3=Koju|first3=Roshila|last4=Kittur|first4=Swati|last5=Gosai|first5=Kamal Raj|date=2016|title=Factors Affecting Provisioning Times of Two Stork Species in Lowland Nepal| journal=Waterbirds|volume=39|issue=4|pages=365–374|doi=10.1675/063.039.0406|doi-access=free}}</ref> The time taken to find food was most impacted by the location of wetlands around colonies, and the progression of the breeding season. Adults look the least time to return with food earlier in the season when the dominant rice crop was most flooded, and time increased as the rice ripened along with the drying out of the fields.<ref name=":2" /> Adult birds in Nepal provisioned chicks at nest with snails of the genus ''[[Filopaludina]]'' and ''[[Pila (gastropod)|Pila]].'' Hatchlings received 87-120 g/day of food, while older nestlings received 272-386 g/day of food.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tamang |first1=Ganesh |last2=Katuwal |first2=Hem Bahadur |last3=Subba |first3=Asmit |last4=Singh |first4=Nanda Bahadur |date=2024 |title=Nutritional dynamics in early development of Asian Openbill: A study of hatchling and nestling feeding patterns |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950509724000157 |journal=Ecological Frontiers |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=726–732 |doi=10.1016/j.ecofro.2024.03.005 |issn=2950-5097|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Like other storks, they are silent except for clattering produced by the striking of the male's [[beak|bill]] against that of the female during copulation. They also produce low honking notes accompanied by up and down movements of the bill when greeting a partner arriving at the nest.<ref name=pcr /><ref>{{cite journal|author= Kahl, M Philip |year=1970| title= Observations on the breeding of Storks in India and Ceylon| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=67| issue=3|pages=453–461|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47820044}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Mukhopadhyay, Anand |year=1980| title= Some observations on the biology of the Openbill Stork, ''Anastomus oscitans'' (Boddaert), in southern Bengal| journal=J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.| volume=77| issue=1| pages=133–137|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44708043}}</ref> Males may sometimes form polygynous associations, typically with two females which may lay their eggs in the same nest.<ref>{{cite journal| journal= The Auk | volume=112| issue=1| pages=257–260| year= 1995| title= Polygyny in the Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans)| vauthors= Datta T, Pal BC |url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v112n01/p0257-p0260.pdf| doi= 10.2307/4088788| jstor=4088788}}</ref> ==Relationship with other organisms== Young birds at the nest are sometimes preyed on by [[eastern imperial eagle|imperial]], [[steppe eagle|steppe]] and [[greater spotted eagle]]s.<ref>{{cite journal| author=Naoroji, Rishad |year=1990| title= Predation by ''Aquila'' Eagles on nestling Storks and Herons in Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. |volume=87| issue=1| pages=37–46|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48806671}}</ref> ''Chaunocephalus ferox'', an intestinal parasite, is a [[trematode]] worm found in about 80% of the wild populations in Thailand<ref>{{cite journal|title=Chaunocephalosis in a wild population of Asian open-billed storks in Thailand |author=Poonswad P |author2=Chatikavanij P |author3=Thamavit W |journal=Journal of Wildlife Diseases |year=1992 |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=460–466 |pmid=1512882 |doi=10.7589/0090-3558-28.3.460 |s2cid=6110958 |doi-access=free }}</ref> while another species ''Echinoparyphium oscitansi'' has been described from Asian openbills in Thailand.<ref>{{cite journal|journal= J. Sci. Soc. Thailand| volume=15| year=1989| pages=293–299| title=Echinoparyphium oscitansi n. sp. (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae): Natural infection in Asian Open-billed Storks (''Anastomus oscitans''; Aves; Ciconiidae) in Thailand| url=http://www.scienceasia.org/1989.15.n4/v15_293_299.pdf|vauthors=Poonswad P, Chatikavanij P|doi= 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1989.15.293|issue= 4| doi-access=free}}</ref> Other [[helminth]] parasites such as ''Thapariella anastomusa'', ''T. oesophagiala'' and ''T. udaipurensis'' have been described from the oesophagus of storks.<ref>{{cite journal| title= Histological and histochemical studies of a new species of Thapariella (Trematoda: Digenea)| vauthors=Gupta AN, Sharma PN|journal= Rivista di Parassitologia |year=1970 |volume= 31| issue=3 | pages=169–174| pmid= 5498221}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| title= ''Thapariella oesophagiala'' sp. novo. (Trematoda: Thapariellidae)| vauthors=Ramanaiah BV, Agarwal SM| journal= Indian Journal of Helminthology |year= 1970 |volume=21| issue= 2 |pages=115–118 }}</ref> The tick ''Argas (Persicargas) robertsi'', commonly seen on domestic fowl, has been recovered from nesting Asian Openbills.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hoogstraal |first1=Harry |last2=Kaiser |first2=M. N. |last3=McClure |first3=H. E. |date=1974 |title=The Subgenus Persicargas (Ixodoidea: Argasidae: Argas) 20. A. (P.) robertsi parasitizing nesting wading birds and domestic chickens in the Australian and Oriental Regions, viral infections, and host migration |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/11.5.513 |journal=Journal of Medical Entomology |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=513–524|doi=10.1093/jmedent/11.5.513 |pmid=4455914 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In colonial India, sportsmen shot the openbill for meat, calling it the "beef-steak bird" (although this name was also used for the [[woolly-necked stork]]<ref>{{cite book|year=1864|publisher=George Wyman and Co.|place=London| title= The Birds of India. Volume III.|author=Jerdon, T.C.|page=[https://archive.org/details/birdsindiabeing01jerdgoog/page/n317 738]|url=https://archive.org/details/birdsindiabeing01jerdgoog}}</ref>).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/HowToKnowTheIndianWaders#page/n25/mode/2up|page=20| title=How to the know the Indian waders|author=Finn, Frank| year=1906| publisher=Thacker, Spink and Co.|place= Calcutta}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Wikispecies|Anastomus oscitans}} {{Commons category|Anastomus oscitans}} * [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/asian-openbill-anastomus-oscitans Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans)] video photos and sounds - Internet Bird Collection * [http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=1262 Asian Openbill ''Anastomus oscitans'' - Adult] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605183258/http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=1262 |date=2020-06-05 }} - Oriental Bird Images {{Storks}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q602496}} [[Category:Anastomus|Asian openbill]] [[Category:Birds of Asia]] [[Category:Birds of Indomalaya]] [[Category:Birds described in 1783|Asian openbill]]
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