Saddle-billed Stork

The vernacular name is ambiguous; in fact, the term Jabiru applies to three species of birds in the Ciconiidae family: the African Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), the Asian Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) and the American Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria). But only the American Jabiru belongs to the Jabiru genus.
A large bird, the Jabiru is, along with the African Marabout, the largest stork species.
Its size is 1.45 to 1.50 m for a wingspan of 2.40 to 2.70 m. The male is larger and heavier than the female.
It is an elegant wader with a bicolored plumage identical for both sexes.
The head, neck, wings (outside the remiges) and tail are iridescent black. The rest of the body is white.
The tibias and tarses are black. The joint and fingers are orange-red.
The chest has a small area of bare skin red. Its color intensifies during the breeding period.
The beak, long and large, is slightly curved upwards. Bright red in color, it has a yellow plate in the shape of a saddle at its upper base. It is from this particularity that it takes its English name of Saddle-billed Stork (literally stork with a saddle beak). In the second quarter of its length, the beak is striped with a wide black band.
Sexual dimorphism is only characterized by golden yellow eyes for the female, dark brown for the male and two small caruncles at the base of the lower jaw for the latter.
The juvenile is generally rather gray. Its plumage is bicolored but much less contrasted than that of adults. Their beaks are entirely gray-brown.