Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Yellow-billed Stork*
Id (Atlas):
Mycteria ibis
Description (10 )
Yellow-billed Stork
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Family
Ciconiidae (Storks)
Size
100 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Habitat
Wetlands, large swamps, margins of rivers and lakes, lagoons, large marshes, small pools, flooded grassland, alkaline lakes, reservoirs, waterholes and rice-paddies. Also, less commonly marine mudflats, tidal pools along beaches or in estuaries.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau (B), Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of] (B), Togo, Uganda, Zambia (B), Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Bulgaria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey.
Africa south of Sahara, Madagascar; straggles into Palearctic Africa in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.
 
Population
Estimated population is 76,000 - 100,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Food
Frogs, small fish, aquatic insects, worms, crustaceans. Occasionally small mammals and birds.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files
Listen to XC337857
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis ) [XC337857 ]
by Fernand DEROUSSEN from Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal (call)
Listen to XC131912
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis ) [XC131912 ]
by id from Baringo, Kenya (call)
Nest
A structire composed of sticks, located in small trees over water or high up in larger tress on dry land. In colonies of single or mixed species groups.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Yellow-billed Stork see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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