#leptoptilos

[birdblues]

Marabou Stork

#marabou stork #stork #Leptoptilos crumenifer #Ciconiiformes #Ciconiidae #Leptoptilos #bird #upl

[snototter]

Marabou storks (Leptoptilos crumenifer) scrap over food in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa

by Fabrice Stoger

#marabou stork #marabou #storks #birds #Leptoptilos crumenifer #Leptoptilos #ciconiidae #Ciconiiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: botswana #wildlife: africa

[the-paleoraptor]

Sorry for not posting for a while lmao, but here have this Leptoptilos robustus for #paleonusantara

#paleoart #digital art #paleontology #digital illustration #leptoptilos robustus #art #paleonusantara

[nightmare-birds]

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

© William Bezodis

#marabou stork #leptoptilos crumenifer #ciconiidae #ciconiiformes #william bezodis #birds

[otussketching]

“You disappoint me.” The hobbit looked up at the giant marabou with a meek expression. He had made a promise to the stork. Help him find a new home. The stork’s home tree was felled by a massive storm, along with his wife and children. The hobbit wanted to help the stork, if the stork in return would tell him how to avoid the dragons. He had found a spot where a tall tree stood, a perfect home for a stork. But that, too, was felled by the storm.   “I’m sorry.“, said the hobbit.

#paleoart #palaeoblr #birblr #paleontology #bird art #stylized paleoart #palaeo cartoon #leptoptilos robustus #giant marabou stork #homo floresiensis

[inatungulates]

Common waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

With marabou stork Leptoptilos cruminifer (midground, walking), saddle-billed stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis (midground, wings spread), spur-winged goose Plectropterus gambensis (background, between/behind waterbucks and storks), African openbill Anastomus lamelligerus (right background), African spoonbill Platalea alba (far background)

Observed by lemoncul, CC BY-NC

#Kobus ellipsiprymnus #common waterbuck #Bovidae #antelope #non-ungulate #bird #Leptoptilos cruminifer #marabou stork #Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis #saddle-billed stork #Anastomus lamelligerus #African openbill #stork #Plectropterus gambensis #spur-winged goose #waterfowl #Platalea alba #African spoonbill #pelecaniform #Africa #Malawi #juvenile

[ssluggart]

a quick marabou stork for tonight :]

#art #digital art #birds #marabou stork #leptoptilos crumenifer #ornithology #bird august 2023 #slugs art

[officialweezerelections]

FINAL MATCH

Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

They kill and eats flamingos as well as anything else they can fit in their giant mouths. They eat fecal matter. They eat crocodiles. They eat trash out of dumpsters. They’ve eaten shoes. They’ll attack you if you don’t give them your shoe. They have no natural predators besides MAYBE lions and some parasitic nematodes.

VERSUS

Giant Petrel (genus Macronectes)

They’re very violent hyper aggressive predatory birds that will kill a seal and dance on its dead body (this is called sealmaster posture) to show everybody else that nobody can do what this bird can do. They love to batter and drown other birds to death—including albatrosses! They’re often dyed red with the blood of their enemies.

[birdirectory]

marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) by Ashlie Santiago

#leptopitilos crumenifer #marabu #marabou stork #animal #bird #food #human #water #upload

[drizzledrawings]

I love your rdr gang wings art!! what wings do you think strauss would have?

Thank you so much!!

Maybe one of these guys? It’s a Leptoptilos

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldStorkDay :

Géza Vastagh (Hungarian, 1866–1919)

Three Marabous, 1909

pastel on cardboard 

H 38 x W 48.5cm

Private Collection

🆔 Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer), native to sub-Saharan Africa.

“[Vastagh’s] work is dominated by animal depictions, especially lions, but the animals of the Hungarian Puszta also influenced his work. With a government scholarship he traveled to North Africa, Algeria and Tunis in 1898 and was able to portray the animals in their natural habitat. He also found his motifs in the zoos of Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig.”

#animals in art #animal holiday #european art #20th century art #birds in art #bird #birds #stork #Marabou Stork #African animals #pastel #drawing #Géza Vastagh #Hungarian art #World Stork Day #species ID

[uwmspeccoll]

A Lunch-Time Feathursday

Yep, just as our header suggests -- and getting progressively more gruesome. These images are reproduced from paintings by the German wildlife artist Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926) from the second volume in Brehms Tierbilder, published in Leipzig and Vienna by Bibliographisches Institut in 1913.

Shown here from top to bottom are group of non-European finches, a Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius), a Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo), a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), a Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), and a couple of Marabou Storks (Leptoptilos crumeniferus).

Bon appetit!

View more Feathursday posts.

#Feathursday #Brehms Tierbilder #Wilhelm Kuhnert #wildlife artists #Bibliographisches Institut #finches #Eurasain Jay #Eurasian Eagle-Owl #Golden Eagle #Gyrfalcon #Marabou Stork #birds #birbs! #lunch

[snototter]

A lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus)

by Walter Bachmann

#lesser adjutant #adjutants and marabous #storks #birds #leptoptilos javanicus #leptoptilus #ciconiidae #ciconiiformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: misc #possibly #wildlife: india

[mutant-distraction]

Rajamanohar Stephen

Greater Adjutant Stork

Wikipedia

The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa. Once found widely across southern Asia and mainland southeast Asia, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only three breeding populations; two in India, with the largest colony in Assam, a smaller one around Bhagalpur; and another breeding population in Cambodia. They disperse widely after the breeding season. This large stork has a massive wedge-shaped bill, a bare head and a distinctive neck pouch. During the day, it soars in thermals along with vultures with whom it shares the habit of scavenging. They feed mainly on carrion and offal; however, they are opportunistic and will sometimes prey on vertebrates. The English name is derived from their stiff "military" gait when walking on the ground. Large numbers once lived in Asia, but they have declined (possibly due to improved sanitation) to the point of endangerment. The total population in 2008 was estimated at around a thousand individuals.

[beardedmrbean]

Can I get some good vibes please? My grandmother is in the hospital and they haven’t figured anything out yet. I’m really scared.

Not sure if we're doing mood booster, good news, or prayers so I'm gonna go the blunderbuss method and do all 3.

First from Double Simba poor baby.

And here's a quoaka and their Joey playing peekaboo

That's all good news there

I will absolutely pray for you and your grandmother as well, and I am asking my followers if they wouldn't mind joining in at some point whenever the mood strikes to send a prayer or a good thought both of your's ways.

Rest of your family as well

#anonymous #prayer request

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius)

(Photo by Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok)

Conservation Status- Endangered

Habitat- Asia

Size (Weight/Length)- 8 kg; 120 cm; 250 cm wingspan

Diet- Fish; Frogs; Insects; Reptiles; Crustaceans; Carrion

Cool Facts- If you want to be afraid of a bird, the greater adjutant looks like a serial killer from an 80’s movie. Living in small flocks, greater adjutant patrol marshlands in search of food. While greater adjutants prefer carrion, they will hunt anything that is small enough to fit in their beaks. During the breeding seasons, these flocks combine with other species of large water birds to nest. Trees are scarce and so nest space is fought over and defended viciously. 

Rating- 12/10 (Vulture: the stork.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Birds #Storks #Thursday #June 23 #Greater adjutant #biology #science #conservation #the more you know