A stork with a red face and long yellow bill that forages in shallow African wetlands.
Adults have a red face, a thick yellow bill, and long pink legs, with black feathers on the wing edges and tail. Some wing feathers become brighter pink during breeding season.
It stirs shallow water with one foot to flush out fish, frogs, and other prey, then uses touch to detect when to snap its bill.
Within Africa it moves in response to water levels and fish availability, while some populations stay in the same area. Birds gather at favoured communal roosts at night.
In southern Africa both sexes build a stick nest in a tree. They share incubation of two to four eggs for about 30 days and both feed the young.
Chicks hatch in white down and later grow grey-brown feathers. Juveniles have an orange face and brown legs and feet.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.