Asian Woolly-necked Stork
Asian Woolly-necked StorkAsian Woolly-necked StorkAsian Woolly-necked StorkAsian Woolly-necked Stork

Asian Woolly-necked Stork

Ciconia episcopus

Silhouette: L. Shyamal · PhyloPic

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
at Eravikulam National Park
1 Verified sightings at Eravikulam National Park From 2019 to 2026
6,593 Verified sightings across all 24 parks From 2019 to 2026
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

About the Asian Woolly-necked Stork

The Asian woolly-necked stork or Asian woollyneck (Ciconia episcopus) is a species of large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds singly, or in small loose colonies. It is distributed in a wide variety of habitats including marshes in forests, agricultural areas, and freshwater wetlands across Asia.

The woolly-necked stork was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected from the Coromandel Coast of India. 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. 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 episcopus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The woolly-necked stork is now placed in the genus Ciconia that was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The genus name Ciconia is the Latin word for a "stork"; the specific epithet episcopus... Wikipedia →

Global Distribution

Warmer areas are where this animal is recorded most often.

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~60%
2 Kaziranga National Park 🇮🇳 India
~50%
3 Ranthambore National Park 🇮🇳 India
~40%
4 Royal Bardia National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
~40%
5 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~30%
6 Keoladeo National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
7 Bandipur National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
8 Satpura National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
9 Chitwan National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
~30%
10 Periyar National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
11 Mudumalai National Park 🇮🇳 India
~30%
12 Bandhavgarh National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
13 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~20%
14 Nagarhole National Park 🇮🇳 India
~20%
15 Gir National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
16 Cat Tien National Park 🇻🇳 Vietnam
~10%
17 Jim Corbett National Park 🇮🇳 India
~10%
18 Bali Barat National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
<5%
19 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
<5%
20 Kanha National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
21 Manas National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
22 Eravikulam National Park 🇮🇳 India
Insufficient data
23 Langtang National Park 🇳🇵 Nepal
Insufficient data
24 Royal Manas National Park 🇧🇹 Bhutan
Insufficient data
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