Bird - Please identify the species -- Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) --
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From: "CCR" < CCRieker@~att.net >
Subject: Re: Bird - Please identify the species
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:35:57 GMT
Saddle-bill Stork
http://www.pakcenter.com/reading/education/zoo/birds/Stork.html
Nice photo!!
-Craig
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The saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis is a widespread species which is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South Africa, and in The Gambia, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Chad in west Africa.