A large stork of wetlands on the Indian subcontinent. It has a white body with a pink tinge and searches shallow water for small fish.
Its white body has a bright pink tinge, and its bill is orange.
It feeds on small fish in wetlands, ponds, and flooded fields. It nests in trees and may breed in colonies with other waterbirds.
In flight it often droops its head and neck to around belly level or below.
Adults have black-striped wing markings, bright pink tertials, an orange face, and a speckled band across the chest.
Immature birds are duller and brown-washed, and lack the adult chest band.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.