marabou stork
leptoptilos crumenifer latin

No. 5, the Marabou stork, sometimes accompanied by the adjutant.

Sword in hand, he stalked ahead on long legs like a marabou stork.

It has the southernmost nesting site of the marabou stork.

He was also a key character in Marabou Stork Nightmares.

Vultures and the Marabou stork fly at enormous altitudes.

A rare Pere David's deer and a marabou stork had broken legs.

Along with some of the world's largest birds like ostriches, Marabou storks and grey-crowned cranes.

Both his history and his psychic battle with the marabou stork come to a sudden, jarring resolution.

They were in the aviary, standing before the battered, sinister grandeur of the marabou stork and the king vulture.

Giant marabou storks with ungodly wattles perch atop shimmering blue high-rise buildings.

Farrell saw the marabou stork coming toward them, pacing softly, full of a carrion-eater's mincing exaltation.

Hunch-shouldered and forlorn, marabou storks resemble undertakers as we drift silently past their roost.

Hordes of fish eagles and marabou storks circled the ailing channel, defying all ornithological laws.

Leptoptilos robustus, A giant marabou stork.

Marabou storks pick armyworms from the grass and quelea chicks from their nests.

Marabou Stork Nightmares is a novel by Irvine Welsh.

The falls' cliff-face ledges provide nesting places and breeding sites for a Marabou Stork colony.

As with vultures, Marabou Storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste.

The tall black and white marabou storks, solemn as undertakers, stalked in with their bright greedy eyes set in the naked face-mask.

Apepi had been here at Bubasti for many years in camps that swarmed with rats, vultures and the carrion-eating marabou storks.

In one case, a flying adult bird was heard uttering hoarse croaks, apparently as a sign of aggression at a nearby Marabou Stork.

His most recent novel is "Marabou Stork Nightmares," which goes inside the mind of a soccer thug and rapist as he lies in a coma.

Marabou Stork - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)

The name Marabou was chosen instead from the Marabou Stork, the species of bird on the Freia logo.