Seeing the Shoebill Stork in real time is like experiencing a dinosaur, mixed with a pelican, mixed with a cartoon with the soul of the Great and powerful Oz. I saw my shoebill in Entebbe, Uganda but you'll likely see them hanging out silently and in solidarity in the marshes of the East African White Nile and its tributaries. They stand tall and still between stalks of papyrus along the banks of the marshlands. You really have to know where to look for them. I hired a birding villager two hours outside of the city to help me spot them in a wooden canoe through a tributary. In this video, pay special note to the echo-inducing clicking sound it makes in conjunction with it's head shake.. I feel it must have made it's vocal debut in Jurassic Park. Oh, and it feeds on a regular, marshland bird diet of frogs, lungfish, and.... BABY CROCODILES.
some facts garnered from:
"shoebill stork." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2016. Encyclopedia.com. 25 Jul. 2016<http://www.encyclopedia.com>.
some facts garnered from:
"shoebill stork." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2016. Encyclopedia.com. 25 Jul. 2016<http://www.encyclopedia.com>.