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The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), also known as the whale-headed stork, and shoe-billed stork, is a large long-legged wading bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill . It has a somewhat stork -like overall form and has previously been classified with the storks in the order Ciconiiformes based on this morphology.
The shoebill is the sole extant species and its closest relative is the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), which belongs to another family. Species from the Ciconiiformes and Balaenicipitidae family have been found in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and parts of East Africa. It has the following genera: Balaeniceps [1] [2]
This is a Shoebill (ハシビロコウ) at Ueno Zoo (上野動物園). The Shoebill sits there staring off into space, turns and looks at the viewer. As it turns away, we can see its large eye blink. This is a gift of mine to Wikipedia, in hires. Date: May 2008: Source: Own work: Author: Nesnad: Permission (Reusing this file) CC, GNU FDL
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. The hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) is a medium-sized bird.It is the only living species in the genus Scopus and the family Scopidae. The species and family was long thought to sit with the Ciconiiformes but is now placed with the Pelecaniformes, and its closest relatives are thought to be the pelicans and the shoebill.
A red knot equipped with a GLS.. A light level geolocator, light-level logger or global location sensor (GLS) is a lightweight, electronic archival tracking device, usually used in bird migration research to map migration routes, identify important staging areas, and sometimes provide additional ecological information.
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Reviewing genetic evidence to date, Cracraft and colleagues surmised that pelicans were sister to the shoebill with the hamerkop as the next earlier offshoot. [7] Ericson and colleagues sampled five nuclear genes in a 2006 study spanning the breadth of bird lineages, and came up with pelicans, shoebill and hamerkop in a clade. [ 8 ]
A variety of fixes were put in place to curb the alcohol-fueled drama, and it worked — the drama returned to the course, and the fans were (mostly) well-behaved, even in the 16th-hole Bird’s Nest.