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African Open-billed Stork has an extremely large range and is an intra-African trans-equatorial migrant making movements that are triggered by the rains. It is typically a bird of marshes, swamps and lakes where it feeds primarily on molluscs. The unusual looking bill is specialised for extraction of snails from their shells. The nest is a small platform of sticks and vegetation positioned in trees and bushes over water (e.g. inundated in standing water on flood-plains), or alternatively in reedbeds.
African Open-billed Stork (Anastomus lamelligerus), Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa
Nikon D40X, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 200 mm, 1/400 sec at f/ 6.3, ISO 200
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Great shot.
Thank you very much Gary!
– Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos
03-10-2012.
Thank you Dennis!
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Thank you Maggie!
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WONDERFUL capture
Thanks a lot Larry!
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Nice capture my friend. Tom
Thanks a lot Tom, take care!
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4 October 2012 – 1 image per 24hrs
great capture
Thanks a lot Angel!
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Splendid shot Konstantinos.
Many thanks Mark, cheers!
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