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jabiru

A name used for several species of stork; especially Jabiru mycteria of Central and South America; also the saddle-bill stork (Ephippiorhyncus senegalensis) from S Africa, and the black-necked stork (Ephippiorhyncus asiaticus) from India to N Australia. (Family: Ciconiidae.)

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Conservation status

Least concern (LC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ciconiidae
Genus: Jabiru
Hellmayr, 1906
Species: J. mycteria
Binomial name
Jabiru mycteria
( Lichtenstein, 1819)

The Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes.

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