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 Post subject: Re: Stork, Saddle-billed
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Yeah we did, I am unfortunately at work so I will post them up when I get home...

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This one we found on the phalaborwa road to mopani during December 2009
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Dotty I put the wild dog post and photo's in the Mammals topic here - http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1530&start=690

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 Post subject: Saddle-billed Stork with yellow eyes and wattles
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On the West Rand Honorary Rangers' KNP Birding weekend at Berg-en-Dal three seperate trucks saw on separate occasions a saddlebilled stork with yellow eyes and yellow wattles at the base of the bill - according to the books the female has yellow eyes and no wattles whereas the male has brown eyes with wattles. We had to record whether male/female for the EWT survey. Anyone ever seen this before?

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Hi Senyetse. This bird has been reported before and was dubbed Mrs. Balls. :shock: There's an interesting theory involving storks, Caster Semenya and DDT. Read here.


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 Post subject: Re: Saddle-billed Stork with yellow eyes and wattles
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JoelR wrote:
Hi Senyetse. This bird has been reported before and was dubbed Mrs. Balls. :shock: There's an interesting theory involving storks, Caster Semenya and DDT. Read here.


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Curious to as why the saddlebill that is feeding has a bluish eye do they have a eye film layering ? anyone know?

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Hi El-Bok

That's what I think they call a nictitating membrane. Sharks also have it.

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Hi Mant thanks for that knew sharks had it was stunned to see it on a stork wow something new everyday :lol:

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Saw this one, catching frogs at Lake Panic two weeks ago.

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Hi Yolandé,
Beautiful pictures.

We saw this one in the river at Skukuza in July 2010.


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The following Saddle-billed Storks were in the biyamiti-river in front on the Biyamiti camp site.

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@ arks: you are right, LVB´s stork is a wooly-necked stork.

I saw this female yellow-billed stork along the S137 in April:

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