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The big trip: WATCH THE BIRDIE Braving leeches and watersnakes, Stephanie Debere heads into a vast Zambian swamp to see the giant shoebill, one of the most extraordinary creatures on earth
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/23/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and prehistoric-looking shoebill stork, which is found only in a...very like the dodo, the shoebill is so called because its massive...We had set out at dawn from Shoebill Island, a tented safari camp...infectious zest for finding shoebills had crushed any squeamishness...
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A jungle out there
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...Semliki in search of the shoebill stork, a highly endangered species...conventional categories of heron and stork and looks as though it would...of dinosaurs. Semliki's shoebills live on the southern shores...halt 30m from a solitary shoebill. It stood there looking...feel, overlooked by ...
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DEAR RANGER RICK.
Magazine article from: Ranger Rick; 4/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...plants. Answer to February's "Who Am I?" The bird in the photograph is a shoebill--also called a shoebill stork or a whale-headed stork. Shoebills walk slowly through African marshes, looking for fish, frogs, or young turtles...
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AFRICA'S ANIMAL REFUGE ; It was set up as an animal orphanage, but today it is a haven for 50 species exploited by poachers and witch doctors in a region ravaged by war. Steve Bloomfield reports on a unique sanctuary ++ Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...panicked and kept it in a drum, unsure of what to do with it. Birds have also been saved. The centre is home to a shoebill stork, a 5ft tall, grey-feathered bird of which there are only 350 left in the world. It was found in the boot of a...
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Travel: Get Set, Go! Eco-tours
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...can track chimpanzees (Semliki is sponsoring a long-term chimp study). You can help protect a colony of rare shoebill stork in a section of Lake Albert, also in Uganda (from pounds 1,650 for 10 days including flight). Bookings through...
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From concrete jungle to wild Africa
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 12/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...western province to catch one of the world's greatest wildebeest migrations. "Plus Bangweulu Wetlands - to see the shoebill stork, a rare and weird-looking bird that has a bill shaped like a clog," she added. "Three months would have been...
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WATERBIRDS DECLINE.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 1/23/2007; 324 words
; ...fallen in the past five years, while 34 percent were stable, and 17 percent rising. Altogether, 12 families of birds have half or more of their global populations showing a decreasing trend, including storks, shoebills and plovers.
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Survey: Waterbird Species Are in Decline
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...Altogether, 12 families of birds have half or more of their global populations showing a decreasing trend, including storks, shoebills and plovers. The numbers are slightly worse than 2002 - when the last study was conducted. At that time, 41 percent...
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Cities drowning out waterbirds.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 1/24/2007; 640 words
; ...Altogether, 12 families of birds have half or more of their global populations showing a decreasing trend, including storks, shoebills and plovers. The worst decreases occurred in Asia, where 62% of the waterbird populations had declined or become...
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Waterbird population in decline, study finds: Researchers blame, global warming, economic development for downturn
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 1/23/2007; ; 583 words
; ...Altogether, 12 families of birds have half or more of their global populations showing a decreasing trend, including storks, shoebills and plovers. The numbers are slightly worse than 2002 - when the last study was conducted. At that time, 41 percent...
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shoebill stork
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
shoebill stork common name for a large...solitary, silent bird, the shoebill stork is native to the marshy...In several respects, shoebills are similar to herons...A ground nester, the shoebill deposits its one or two...
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shoebill
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
shoe·bill / ˈ sh oōˌbil / • n. an African stork ( Balaeniceps rex , the only member of the family Balaenicipitidae) with gray plumage and a very large bill shaped like a wooden shoe.
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