They eat big fish like lungfish, eels, and catfish, and also crazy stuff like Nile monitor lizards, snakes, and baby crocodiles. Shoebills, which live in the swamps of eastern tropical Africa, are after smaller prey. What is this? Scientists estimate that there are less than 10,000 Shoebills left in existence. It is part of the Animalia Kingdom, Chordata Phylum, Aves Class, Pelecaniformes Order, and Balaenicipitidae Family. When did the shoebill evolve?Īround 65 million years ago What is the shoebill stork related to?Ĭlosely Related To Pelicans and Herons The name means Shoebill, Whale-headed Stork. The Shoebill is undergoing a continuing decline owing to the effects of habitat destruction and degradation, pollution, nest disturbance, hunting, and capture for the live bird trade. As land is cleared for pasture, habitat loss is a major threat, and sometimes cattle will trample on nests.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that there are only between 3,300 and 5,300 adult shoebills left in the world, and the population is going down. How many shoebills are left in the world?Ĭonservation.
Distribution and habitat The shoebill is distributed in freshwater swamps of central tropical Africa, from southern Sudan and South Sudan through parts of eastern Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, western Tanzania and northern Zambia.
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