Biologically termed Anastomus oscitans, it breeds near wetlands, nests on big trees and feeds on snails, frogs, large insects etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [1000 Openbill Stork Killed As Century Old Banyan Tree Collapses] Reference

The Asian open-billed stork (Anastomus oscitans) provides a striking example of the practical side of Buddhist environmentalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion, nature and environmentalism] Reference

(Anastomus lamelligerus) rise on the wing from the clumps of reeds, or low trees (the Eschinomena, from which pith hats are made), on which they build in colonies, and are speedily high in mid-air.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

Anastomus, the Open-billed stork, has scopate tomial edges (meaning that it possesses tiny brush-like structures along the margins of its bill) and upper and lower jaws that bow away from each other, meaning that their edges never meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

The area continues to support possibly the largest known concentration of the globally near-threatened Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans), currently scattered in four or five colonies in the ecoregion and thought to number more than 10,000 pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests] Reference

For example, common waterbirds at the Marromeu Complex Game Management Area in the Zambezi delta include openbilled storks (Anastomus lamelligerus), saddlebilled storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) and white-backed pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zambezian coastal flooded savanna] Reference

The Sajnakhali area contains a wealth of water birds, noteworthy residents including Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans, black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, greater adjutant Leptoptilos dubius (E), white ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus, swamp francolin Francolinus gularis, white-collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris, black-capped kingfisher H. pileata and brown-winged kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sundarbans National Park, India] Reference

The reed beds are important sites for waterfowl, and the habitats provide feeding grounds for the eastern sarus crane (Grus antigone), the near-endemic giant ibis (Pseudibis gigantea), white-shouldered ibis (P. davisoni), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus), Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans), and possibly the lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus) (Table 1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests] Reference

Hundreds of the ‘Ibis religiosa’ come down the Leeambye with the rising water, as they do on the Nile; then large white pelicans, in flocks of three hundred at a time, following each other in long extending line, rising and falling as they fly so regularly all along as to look like an extended coil of birds; clouds of a black shell-eating bird, called linongolo (‘Anastomus lamelligerus’); also plovers, snipes, curlews, and herons without number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

At Chitlane’s village we collected the young of a colony of the linkololo (‘Anastomus lamalligerus’), a black, long-legged bird, somewhat larger than a crow, which lives on shellfish (‘Ampullaria’), and breeds in society at certain localities among the reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Borolia, Bec ouvert or Anastomus coromandelianus, Pelicans, Water-hens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Wattled and southern crowned cranes (Grus carunculatus, Balearica regulorum), saddle-billed, marabou and open-billed storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, Anastomus lamelligerus), African fish eagles (Haliaeeetus vocifer), black-necked grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), Caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia), eastern white and pink-backed pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus, P. rufescens), geese and waders such as avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta), black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus), plovers, sandpipers and teals (Anas spp.) congregate around the pans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zambezian halophytics] Reference