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Storks are large wading birds with long bills. They are almost voiceless and communicate mostly by clattering their bills. Many build big nests of sticks. Several species travel long distances, riding rising warm air. Many eat fish, frogs and insects.
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Ciconiidae
Ciconia abdimii · Least concern
An Ottoman governor gave it his name: Bey El-Arnaut Abdim, who governed Wadi Halfa in Sudan in the early 19th century. At about 73 cm and just over a kilogram, Abdim's stork is the smallest of all storks. It lives across open country in sub-Saharan Africa, with a small population in Yemen, and feeds mostly on locusts, caterpillars and other large insects. Some have escaped or been released in Florida.
Photo: Gediminas (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Ciconiidae
Anastomus lamelligerus · Least concern
The African openbill's mandibles meet only at the tip, leaving a gap that gives the genus its name. That gap was first thought to work as a nutcracker for the snail shells it feeds on. It forages with its bill slightly ajar, snapping it shut when it meets prey.
Photo: ColdCalifornian (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ciconiidae
Anastomus oscitans · Least concern
Its bill does not close in the middle: adult Asian openbills have a gap between the arched upper and curved lower halves. It has long been thought to help this small stork of India and South-East Asia handle snails, its main prey, but the gap only forms with age, young birds lack it, and it is not used for the shells.
Photo: J.M.Garg (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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