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Alternative name: White-bellied Stork

Photo by Max Holdt
Etosha, Namibia

Ciconia abdimii

[edit] Identification

73 cm

• Black body
• White underparts
• Grey legs with red knees and feet;
• Grey bill
• Red facial skin in front of the eye
• Blue skin near the bill in breeding season
  

The female is slightly smaller than male.

[edit] Distribution

Sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia

The Abdim's Stork is distributed to open habitats throughout East Africa, from Ethiopia south to South Africa.

Photo by Ignacio
Near Waterberg, Namibia, January 2008

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic

[edit] Habitat

Open fields

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

2-3 eggs are laid.

[edit] Diet

The diet consists mainly of locusts, caterpillars and other large insects.

[edit] In Culture

The smallest stork, the name commemorates the Turkish Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan Bey El-Arnaut Abdim (1780-1827).

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

1. Wikipedia

• List of references

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