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Interesting Facts

 1.)The saddle-billed stork was discovered by  George Shaw in 1800. Shaw is better known for being the first scientist to examine a platypus and The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.

2.) The saddle-billed stork is the largest of the African storks!

3.) Saddle-billed storks numbers are greatly decreasing due to pollution and their lack of ability to adapt to a different niche!

4.)The saddle-billed stork was represent by a hieroglyphic. G29

5.) The saddle-billed stork is one of only two birds in it genus, the other being the black-necked stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.

Saddle-billed stork flying with food

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