#Marabou Stork

[great-and-small]

They’re literally flying off the shelves

[kiwihounds]

Africa’s Ugly Five

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and every single one of these incredible animals has a beauty all their own. Really enjoyed doing this series! 

[hurglewurm]

marabou stork i love you ugly bird

[birdirectory]

marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) by Ashlie Santiago

[antiqueanimals]

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

Internet Archive

[dendrilart]

[midmodmar]

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

[snototter]

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

by Dale Harding

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @trashmammal69

[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.”

[monikatouhou]

marabou hearn

[textless]

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

Masai Mara, Kenya, July 2023

[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.

[uwmspeccoll]

A Lunch-Time Feathursday

Yep, just as our header suggests -- and getting progressively more gruesome. These images are reproduced from paintings by the German wildlife artist Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926) from the second volume in Brehms Tierbilder, published in Leipzig and Vienna by Bibliographisches Institut in 1913.

Shown here from top to bottom are group of non-European finches, a Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius), a Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo), a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), a Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), and a couple of Marabou Storks (Leptoptilos crumeniferus).

Bon appetit!

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[bewarethecheese]

A #MarabouStork wandering in the grass in the #Serengeti in the #Tanzania. A daily photo from my archives. bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel #africa #safari #animals #wildlife

[officialweezerelections]

It’s Happening.

REAL QUARTERFINALS

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

They kill and eats flamingos as well as anything else they can fit in their giant mouths. They eat fecal matter. They eat crocodiles. They eat trash out of dumpsters. They’ve eaten shoes. They’ll attack you if you don’t give them your shoe. They have no natural predators besides MAYBE lions and some parasitic nematodes. There is something deeply wrong with them.

VERSUS

Flamingo (family Phoenicopteridae)

They’re extremophiles! They live in the most boiling acidic water and they do not give a shit! They drink, nest in, and live in boiling, hypersaline, toxic water that will strip a human’s skin away! And they’re pink!