A female Saddle-billed Stork glides into the river bank to feed. The yellow eye clearly marks the gender, males have a black eye and small bill-wattle


A female Saddle-billed Stork glides into the river bank to feed. The yellow eye clearly marks the gender, males have a black eye and small bill-wattle


Size: 5000px × 3333px
Location: Katavi National Park, Tanzania
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves; Agfa Awards Winner / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: africa, altricial, aquatic, aves, avian, beak, behaviour, bill, birds, birdwatching, black, breeding, ciconiidae, ciconiiformes, clattering, colurful, crustaceans, dimorphism, ephippiorhynchus, eyesight, feeding, fish, flats, food, frogs, habitat, huge, hunter, katavi, male, monogamous, mud, national, ornithology, pair, park, piscivore, plumage, regurgitate, roost, saddle-billed, safari, senegalensis, sexual, shallow, shy, soar, solitary, stabs, stands, stork, subtle, tanzania, technique, thermalling, thermoregulation, urohydrosis, vertebrate, wader, water, waterbird, wattle, wetlands, white, young