Shaebill
At the Pairi Daiza in Brugelette, Belgium
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Faimily: Balaenicipitidae
Bonaparte, 1853
Genus: Balaeniceps
Gould, 1850
Species: B. rex
Binomial name
Balaeniceps rex
Gould, 1850

The Shaebill (Balaeniceps rex), kent as Whalehead or Shae-billed Stork an aw, is a very lairge stork-lik bird. It derives its name frae its massive shae-shaped bill. Altho it haes a somewhit stork-lik oweraw furm an haes previously been classified in the order Ciconiiformes, its true affiliations wi ither livin birds is ambiguous. Some authorities nou reclassify it wi the Pelecaniformes. The adult is mainly grey while the juveniles are brouner. It lives in tropical east Africae in lairge swamps frae Sudan tae Zambie.[2]

References eedit

  1. BirdLife International (2008). "Balaeniceps rex". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 3 Februar 2009. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |last-author-amp= (help)CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is vulnerable.
  2. del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors). (1992) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 84-87334-10-5