Abdim's Stork

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When to see the Abdim's Stork

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Abdim's Stork

The map shades 36 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany, Senegal, Finland.

About the Abdim's Stork

Abdim's stork, also known as the white-bellied stork, is a stork belonging to the family Ciconiidae. It is the smallest species of stork, feeds mostly on insects, and is found widely in open habitats in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Yemen. The common name commemorates the Ottoman Albanian Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan, Bey El-Arnaut Abdim (1780–1827).

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Easily confused with

African Woolly-necked StorkCiconia microscelisThe African woolly-necked stork is a medium-sized stork at 75–92 cm tall. Oriental StorkCiconia boycianaIt is typically larger than the white stork, at 100–129 cm (39.5–51 in) long, 110–150 cm (43–59 in) tall, a weight of 2.8–5.9 kg (6.2–13.0 lb) and a wingspan of 2.22 m (7.3 ft). Storm's StorkCiconia stormiThis medium-sized stork stands at 75–91 cm tall and most of the plumage is black.

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