{"id":36735,"date":"2021-02-04T17:34:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badoca.dev2.shareit.dev\/?p=36735"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T11:30:31","slug":"marabou-stork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badoca.com\/en\/animals\/marabou-stork\/","title":{"rendered":"Marabou Stork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Habitat and Geographical Distribution: <\/strong>Wetlands and drylands, savannahs and grasslands. Also often found near landfills and fishing villages.<\/p>\n

Tropical Africa from Senegal to Eritrea, Ethiopia and western Somalia, southern Namibia and northern and eastern South Africa.<\/p>\n

Diet: <\/strong>Opportunist, consuming any animal matter that it can ingest. Usually a scavenger, but during the reproductive season it will hunt more often, mainly fish, frogs, insects, eggs, small mammals and reptiles.<\/p>\n

Reproduction:<\/strong> Breeds in colonies and uses twigs to build the nest in trees where it lays 2-3 eggs. The incubation period is 30 days and the chicks fledge after 95-115 days, reaching adulthood at the age of 4 years.<\/p>\n

Behaviour:<\/strong> Usually gather in groups. When feeding on carrion often follow vultures. As with the vultures, marabou storks\u2019 ingestion of carrion and waste plays an important natural function of cleaning areas.<\/p>\n

Conservation status:<\/strong> Least Concern (LC), not included in the CITES<\/p>\n

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Classification<\/div>\n

Class:<\/strong> Aves<\/p>\n

Order:<\/strong> Ciconiiformes<\/p>\n

Family:<\/strong> Ciconiidae<\/p>\n

Dimensions:<\/strong> 1.15-1.50 m length and 2.25- 2.90 m wingspan.<\/p>\n

Weight:<\/strong> 8 -9 kg<\/p>\n

Average lifespan in the wild: <\/strong>25 years<\/p>\n

Maximum lifespan in captivity: <\/strong>45 years<\/p>\n

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