Nobody does it like the Openbill Stork! A native of Indian and South-east Asian wetlands, the openbill is characterized by, well, a permanently open bill! I know you’re wondering what purpose this solves, and there’s an illustrated sequence and passage from my book Bird Business to answer that question!
Quite the gourmand, feasting on escargot 😁
I had the pleasure of watching one of these storks grabbing hold of snails one by one with ridiculous ease.