Patiently Waiting⁠

This was taken a few minutes before it honed in on something and then I managed to get some great shots of it catching and devouring a fish.⁠
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This was taken a few minutes before it honed in on something and then I managed to get some great shots of it catching and devouring a fish.⁠
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The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) also known as whalehead, whale-headed stork, or shoe-billed stork, is a very large stork-like bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill. It has a somewhat stork-like overall form and has previously been classified with the storks in the order Ciconiiformes based on this morphology. However, genetic evidence places it with the Pelecaniformes. The adult is mainly grey while the juveniles are browner. It lives in tropical east Africa in large swamps from Sudan to Zambia.⁠
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Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda⁠
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