Marabou storks

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Marabou storks

***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus,
is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird," due to its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes, a large white mass of "hair."

Like most storks, the Marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink) it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid.

The Marabou Stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. In both cases, a feathered head would become rapidly clotted with blood and other substances when the bird's head was inside a large corpse, and the bare head is easier to keep clean.
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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

Dandora garbage-
Marabou storks scavange
for food

Andrew Otinga



. Photo by Isabelle Sensei



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on a thorn tree
one marabou stork...
gazing

Isabelle Prondzynski


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Related words

***** Thorn tree, Naivasha Thorn, Fever Tree


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