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title: "Zwarthalsooievaar"
description: "Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus — Vogels. The black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall, long-necked wading bird in the stork family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/black-necked-stork
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zwarthalsooievaar

> Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus — Vogels. The black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall, long-necked wading bird in the stork family.

- Scientific name: *Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 3672
- Wikidata: [Q998703](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q998703)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4753](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4753)

## Names

- en: Black-necked Stork
- de: Riesenstorch
- es: Jabirú asiático
- fr: Jabiru d'Asie
- nl: Zwarthalsooievaar
- pt: Jabiru-de-pescoço-preto
- pl: Żabiru czerwononogi

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2664), IN (530), LK (131), BD (4), NP (4)

## Summary

The black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall, long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia. It lives in wetland habitats and near fields of certain crops such as rice and wheat where it forages for a wide range of animal prey. Adult birds of both sexes have a heavy bill and are patterned in white and irridescent blacks, but the sexes differ in the colour of the iris with females sporting yellow irises and males having dark-coloured irises. In Australia, it is known as a jabiru, although…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-necked_stork

## Photo

![Zwarthalsooievaar](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-necked-stork/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mike Youdale · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148870617

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-necked-stork?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).