Black-Necked Stork

Black-Necked Stork. January 7, 2018.

Ohhhhhhh, there are black-necked storks outside Australasia?!?!?!? First notice! I want this sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dreamed species in European zoos too

@Kakapo - Black-necked Storks aren't endemic to Australasia, they are found throughout south and southeast Asia. Many zoos in Asia keep them.

South east Asia is included in Australasia (Australia + Asia). What I was unaware is about the presence of them outside their native range.

@Kakapo - Australasia doesn't mean "Australia plus Asia", it just means Australasia.

Asia is entirely separate.

This male and a pair at Zoo Miami Are the only individuals in America.

My basic understanding of Australasia is Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and all those islands in and around that area.

I wouldn't imagine they'd be overly difficult to import from Asia if zoos wanted but I don't expect that to happen unfortunately.

FUN FACT: I got four stork lifers on this trip- Jabiru at DWA, Maguari at Dallas, Black-Necked at San Antonio, and Milky at SDZ- which leaves me with only two stork species left to see. Unfortunately I would need to visit Asia to see either as I don't think the Greater Adjutant or Asian Openbill are kept anywhere outside of native range in public collections (though the later might be Europe in the private sector).

~Thylo

@ThylacineAlive then Australasia is just the same than Oceania????? Really I always tought that all south-east Asia is included into Australasia... then, as Chlidonias says, there are none region of Asia inside Australasia. Shocking new for me. I apologize for my ignorance.

@Kakapo - not really the same as Oceania. The best you could say is that one definition of Oceania fits that of Australasia.

Australasia is a defined term (and the name basically means "south of Asia", so literally excludes Asia), whereas Oceania is a general and rather vague name of which the meaning has changed repeatedly depending on what it is being used to represent.

There was a discussion on it a while ago on another photo: Australasia- Radiated Tortoise | ZooChat

@Chlidonias If it makes you feel better, Roger William's new director changed the name of that exhibit to 'World of Adaptations'

~Thylo