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Flock of scavenging birds over the garbage heaps of Guwahati and feeding themselves from a waste. Greater Adjutant Birds are searching food from waste to survive themselves from hunger. The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa. The greater adjutant is omnivorous and it preys on frogs and large insects and will also take birds, reptiles and rodents. It has been known to attack wild ducks coming within reach and swallowing them whole. Greater Adjutant Stork, the world’s most endangered of the stork species, has found a secure home to breed in villages of Assam’s Kamrup district. Source : thehindu.com This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock foota
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