Black Stork Gallery

Black Stork in a Landscape ca. 1780

The distinctive white neck feathers, purple-streaked wings, and red-tinged beak identify this tall bird as a woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus), a native species of India known for its unusual plumage and height. The meandering watercourse on the right side of the composition could be a reference to the riverine areas in which such birds are typically found. A digit from the bird's right foot rests upon its left, illustrating the artist's close study of the standing position of these creatures. This work, like the image of the nightjar (2004.175)nearby, has been attributed to a set of 658 ornithological paintings commissioned by the French serviceman Claude Martin

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Portable Shrine

A little Japanese boy with a portable shrine topped with a stork, ready for a festival day, circa 1900. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Black-necked stork
(Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus),
about to land in the Norman River.
Karumba, Gulf Savannah, Queensland, Australia

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