a portrait of a lesser adjutant that gave an intense stare with its turquoise eyes, bare head not unlike a vulture. with its long scruffy neck hair and massive bill, the carnivore from the stork family which feeds on fishes, frogs and large insects looked highly menacing in this january 2011 photo taken at taman mini indonesia indah, jakarta.
the location:
nitzus 
arguably the ugliest bird on planet earth. plenty of them at parit jawa jetty, south of muar.
that’s why i didn’t include the bald head, to make it looked more tolerable.