Wood stork

Aww! So cute! So cute!!!

It is a bald-head—big, tall, the same as the little blue heron. Its head is large, like that of our native turkey cock; its head is featherless, bald, bare to the back of its head. The sides of its head are chili-red, reaching to its neck. It is long-necked. Its bill is very thick as well as cylindrical, long, like a bow. Its breast is black. Its back, its wings are completely ashen, except that the wing-bends are very black. Its tail is short, black. This wood ibis also comes when [water] birds come. It is quite rare. And when it is caught, it is considered an evil omen. Either some of the lords will die, or war [will come]. If somewhere war breaks out, warriors will go off to die. Thus did the water folk verify it: as often as they took wood ibis, so often the city suffered some harm, and so they died. In times of old, as many lords died, one by one, as the number of wood ibis which they had first taken, perhaps three, perhaps two. Its food is fish and all which lives in the mud. Its flesh is very good to the taste.