20 Indian BirDS VOL. 11 NO. 1 (PUBL. 12 JANUARY 2016) A report of Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus from Amravati District, Maharashtra Ashish Choudhari, Manohar Khode, G. A. Wagh & J. S. Wadatkar Choudhari, A., Khode, M., Wagh, G. A., & Wadatkar, J. S., 2016. A report of Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus from Amaravati District, Maharashtra. Indian BIRDS 11 (1): 20. Ashish Choudhari, Sawata Chouwk, Warud, Amravati District, Maharashtra, India. E-mail:
[email protected] [Corresponding author.] [AC] Manohar Khode, Sarswati Nagar, Warud, Amravati District, Maharashtra, India. [MK] G. A. Wagh, Shri Shivaji Science College, Amravati District 444603,Maharashtra, India. E-mail:
[email protected] [GAW] J. S. Wadatkar, Wildlife & Environment Conservation Society, 42, Green Park Colony, Shegaon Road, Amravati, Maharashtra, India. E-mail:
[email protected] [JSW] Manuscript received on 15 April 2015. he Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus is listed agriculture patches, villages like Sawanga, Goregaon, and Kasari, as Near-threatened by BirdLife international (2015) as it and is connected to the Kasari forest area. On both these lakes Thas undergone a moderately rapid population decline. In we observed fishing by the local fishermen. India it is found all over the plains, and coastal wetlands, being On 28 September 2014, AC and MK visited Dabhi Lake for widespread, but not common (Rasmussen & Anderton 2012). birding, and sighted one unusually tall bird on a small island in There are only a few records of the species from Maharashtra, the lake. They identified it as a Black-necked Stork [33] with the where it is widely, but thinly distributed in suitable wetlands help of Grimmett et al.