Marabou Stork {Leptoptilos crumeniferus}
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Marabou Storks will eat just about any kind of animal, dead or alive. Living prey includes termites, fish, locusts, grasshoppers, army-worm caterpillars, frogs, rodents, crocodile eggs and hatchlings, quelea nestlings, doves, ...
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Marabou Stork ...
Marabou storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with a long, bare throat sac.
SIZE:
Approximately 150 cm (59 in.) ...
Marabou Stork
Africa Bird Guide Information: Its huge size and repulsive appearance leave no doubt as to the bird's identity. The naked head and neck bear sparse woolly down which, in the immature bird, is thicker...
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Marabou stork
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed
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Marabou Stork
When hatched, the chicks are covered with short, white down, which is replaced eight days later by a second coat of the same color.
Marabou storks are common throughout East Africa. They are as at home scrounging through human trash heaps as are gulls and ravens in the United States, and they are also doing well in the wilder areas. They are not blessed with great beauty.
The Marabou Stork, (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) is a very large (5'), rather ugly bird. It is dark gray with white stripes on the wings, a white collar and white underparts. The head and neck are naked.
Predators:
Marabou Stork, Tawny Eagle, Lappet-faced and White-headed Vultures, pythons, and feral pigs.
Locomotion:
Capable of long distance migration. Have been clocked flying at speeds up to 31-37 mph.
A related species, the marabou stork of Africa, is better able to tolerate human disturbance and so is faring better.
Their digestive systems enable them to swallow and digest large bones.
Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
Bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus)
African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
European roller (Coracias garrulus)
Gabar goshawk (Melierax gabar)
Side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) ...
The eggs and chicks of the Lesser flamingo are preyed upon by the marabou stork, lappet-faced vulture, white-headed vulture, and Egyptian vulture.
LONGEST WING SPANS
The birds with the longest wing spans are the marabou stork, a scavenger with a wing span of 8 -13 feet (2.4-4 m), the wandering albatross, whose wingspan is up to about 12.5-13 feet (3.8-4 m).
Yellow-billed Stork Ciconia ibis
Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
Open-billed Stork Anastomus lamelligerus
Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus ...
Lesser Adjutant, Leptoptilos javanicus
Greater Adjutant, Leptoptilos dubius
Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus
Symbolism of storks ...
Ottomar Anschutz's famous 1884 album of photographs of storks inspired the design of Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders of the late 19th century. Storks are heavy, with wide wingspans: the Marabou Stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10.
Bald Ibis (Geronticus calcus), Scarlet Ibis (Eudocrimus ruber), Herons, Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Blue Heron, Egrets, Great Egret (Egretta alba), Storks, African Open-billed Stork (Anastomas lamelligerus), Marabou Stork ...
19th century. Storks are heavy with wide wingspans, and the Marabou Stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10.5 feet), shares the distinction of "longest wingspan of any land bird" with the Andean Condor.
 See also: Marabou, Stork, Vulture, Flamingo, Heron
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