Photo by Fiorellino (Olaf Oliver Riemer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor the most part the Shoebill is a solitary animal and will only pair up during their mating season.\u00a0 Considering they spend most of their days just standing around looking for food, you think they would want to have a friend to hang out with.\u00a0 Seriously, they will barely move when they are hunting except to move their head slightly or to switch their feet around.\u00a0 How boring would that be?<\/p>\n
Shoebill Fast Fact –<\/strong> The large shoe-like bill of this aptly named bird is usually about 20 cm long by 20 cm wide.\u00a0 Why is this significant? These dimensions give the Shoebill the largest bill of all the bird species on this great planet of ours.\u00a0 Well out of the birds that we have discovered anyways.<\/p>\nThat just about does it for me folks.\u00a0 Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have been spending the last couple of days in the water learning about interesting ocean animals so I thought we would come to land today.\u00a0 Once you get dried off we will take some time to go and learn about the Shoebill.\u00a0 In case you weren’t able to tell from the picture the Shoebill is a large stork-like bird that obviously gets its name from their unique shoe-shaped bill. The Shoebill is usually between 115-150 cm (45-60″) tall and can weigh up to 7 kg (15.5 lbs).\u00a0 I told you they were a large stork-like bird but did you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,381,46,4025,1040,1043,1042,1041],"yoast_head":"\n
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