Yellow billed stork – bird of the week
The yellow billed stork is a large stork with pinkish grey-white plumage and black flight-feathers and tail.
Yellow billed storks are usually gregarious in small parties and they forage by walking slowly in shallow waters with their bills immersed, also using the foot-stirring technique to disturb prey.
They are non-breeding summer migrants in South Africa and are mainly absent from the dry west.
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These storks like inland waters, rivers, dams, floodplains and estuaries where they feed on fish, frogs, insects, worms and small mammals.
They spend much of the daytime standing quietly on the shoreline. At night they roost communally on sandbanks or in trees. These storks are usually silent, but have some bill clattering. Breeding is extralimital.
Central African tribes call them Nepando and in Afrikaans die geelbekooievaar.
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