There are roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, and wood storks. Exotic arrivals include spoonbills, white storks and flamingos. It is home for cormorants, painted storks and spoonbills. Common birds are storks, cranes and marabou. Eagles, falcons, partridges, pheasants, and storks are also native to the wildlife of Iran. More than 1,400 tons of fish, numerous eagles, storks and otters died. Many kinds of ducks, storks and swallows migrate to this province in an annual parade. This behavior is exhibited by storks and New World vultures. The jabiru, "Ephippiorhynchus" storks and several species of "Ciconia" are entirely solitary when breeding. This is why white storks and Abdim's storks are known as "grasshopper birds". Aristotle ascribed hibernation not only to swallows, but also to storks and kites. Juvenile greater adjutant storks in captivity weighed from . There are nineteen living species of storks in six genera. The shoebill is a large bird related to the storks. It was offspring of two storks who were bred in captivity.