Lesser Adjutant, Parit Jawa, West Malaysia, 2018
Brahminy Kite, Singapore, 2014
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Great pictures. Could the Lesser Adjutant be the world’s ugliest bird?
I agree. I saw them on Java late last year and have already written about them in a post that will be published later: “Admittedly, some of them [bird species of Alas Purwo NP, Java, Indonesia] are pretty ugly. Only a mother could love the sight of a Lesser Adjutant.”