#Marabou Stork

[snototter]

A marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) perches in a tree in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

by praveen pandian

[great-and-small]

They’re literally flying off the shelves

[hurglewurm]

marabou stork i love you ugly bird

[arthistoryanimalia]

Pierre Bonnard (France, 1867–1947)

Marabou Stork and Four Frogs (Le marabout et les quatre grenouilles), 1889

Three-panel screen; distemper paint on canvas, 62 3/4 × 21 1/2 in.

The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant

[avillanappears]

scooping him sunday

[antiqueanimals]

Wild Animals of Yesterday & To-Day. Written by Frank Finn. Illustrated by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. 1913.

Internet Archive

[elleskinner-justart]

Oh hey, I forgot to post this last month!

Art night challenge with @rachelannmillar to make an ugly critter cute and Christmassy. I went with the Marabou Stork because that big ol' wrinkled wattle is intense.

Love his little smile.

[dendrilart]

[midmodmar]

Guy who definitely does not eat the specimens out of the prosectorium.

[monikatouhou]

marabou hearn

[snototter]

A marabou stork (Leptoptilus crumenifer) in Tsavo National Park, Kenya

by Dale Harding

[happybirdday]

Today's Bird of the Day is the Marabou Stork

The Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large African wading bird, known for its bald head, massive beak, and pink throat pouch. Reaching heights of up to 5 feet and boasting a wingspan of 12 feet, it is among the largest storks. A skilled scavenger, it feeds on carrion, small animals, and refuse, playing a vital ecological role in waste cleanup. Found across sub-Saharan Africa, Marabou Storks thrive in wetlands, savannas, and urban areas. Though often seen as unattractive, their scavenging helps control disease. Despite habitat challenges, they are listed as Least Concern by the IUCN due to their adaptability.

Read more here

Photo taken by me at this location

[evolutionsvoid]

I feel like I have seen a bunch of posts going on around Marabou Storks and how creepy and weird they are, with the garbage eating, huge throat sac and such, but some how I haven't seen anyone bring this up?!

Sure people bring up the title "Undertaker Bird," but don't mention that this looks like a person from behind! You see this thing standing before a corpse, and when you go up to them thinking they are a person, they just turn around and you get bloody bald corpse eater bird. Yeah, the stories and legends write themselves at that point.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldStorkDay :

Géza Vastagh (Hungarian, 1866–1919)

Three Marabous, 1909

pastel on cardboard 

H 38 x W 48.5cm

Private Collection

🆔 Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer), native to sub-Saharan Africa.

“[Vastagh’s] work is dominated by animal depictions, especially lions, but the animals of the Hungarian Puszta also influenced his work. With a government scholarship he traveled to North Africa, Algeria and Tunis in 1898 and was able to portray the animals in their natural habitat. He also found his motifs in the zoos of Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig.”

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Marabou stork! A very big bird which scavenges with the best of them.

Masai Mara, Kenya, July 2023

[birdblues]

Marabou Stork