Lesser Adjutant

The third new stork for me was the lesser adjutant, a very ugly and primitive looking stork that looks like a chain saw massacre perpetrator. You wouldn't want to be left alone with it. It makes a turkey vulture look good, which is saying something. 

This was seen on the Western Range. It looks like it has been bloodied and scarred in a fight (going back to the chain saw massacre description). 

Wikipedia describes it as: "A large stork with an upright stance, a bare head and neck without a pendant pouch...The only confusable species is the greater adjutant [which we did not see], but this species is generally smaller and has a straight upper bill edge (culmen),...with a paler base and appears slightly trimmer and less hunch-backed. The skullcap is paler and the upper plumage is uniformly dark, appearing almost all black. The nearly naked head and neck have a few scattered hair-like feathers. The upper shank or tibia is grey rather than pink...The belly and undertail are white. Juveniles are a duller version of the adult but have more feathers on the nape. During the breeding season, the face is reddish and the neck is orange. The larger median wing coverts are tipped with copper spots and the inner secondary coverts and tertials have narrow white edging...Like others in the genus, they retract their necks in flight. In flight, the folded neck can appear like the pouch of the greater adjutant. Males and females appear similar in plumage but males tend to be larger and heavier billed."

Range from Birds of the World. Purple is year round (which includes Kaziranga NP) and light blue is breeding. 

Found on the Eastern Range.

All I can really say is, boy it is ugly.