Shoebills are Mental !!! (1 Viewer)

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Feb 26, 2019

• #1

African Shoebills are mad ! cool
They look like they're straight out of Jurassic Park !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BMXNRFxjHfs
I love them !




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Last edited: Feb 27, 2019

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Simon Wates

Well-known member

• Feb 26, 2019

• #2

Chosun Juan said:

African Shoebirds are mad:

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Couldn't help but notice the title of the actual video; "Shoebills are metal".

That species is bonkers, but yes how could one not want to watch one, marvelous creatures. Always thought of them as one of the species that almost isn't a bird

 

Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Feb 26, 2019

• #3

Top target on my next trip in September, don't care if I don't see another single bird as long as we get this beast.

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Feb 26, 2019

• #4

Shame most of the birds in that video are zoo inmates :-C and pretty awful narration too

 

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Britseye

Well-known member

• Feb 26, 2019

• #5

https://twitter.com/birder1970

Scroll down to 29 Oct 2018 for some really mental Shoebill action!

 

Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Feb 26, 2019

• #6

Chosun Juan said:

African Shoebirds are mad ! cool
They look like they're straight out of Jurassic Park !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BMXNRFxjHfs
I love them !

Chosun :gh:

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'Shoebirds'....?

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Feb 27, 2019

• #7

Britseye said:

https://twitter.com/birder1970

Scroll down to 29 Oct 2018 for some really mental Shoebill action!

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Direct link to save the scrolling: https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1057075041047904256

 

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Feb 27, 2019

• #8

andyadcock said:

'Shoebirds'....?

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Oops! It was very late, and I couldn't get over that surreal bill looking like a huge shoe had been placed over it! It really does look like something straight out of H.R. Puffinstuff ! :-O


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Andy Adcock

Worst person on Birdforum

• Feb 27, 2019

• #9

Russians call them Whaleheads.

 

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Feb 27, 2019

• #10

Like the crocodile, these 'birds' are a direct link back to prehistoric times - real life dinosaurs !

P.s. thanks to all for picking up the naming slip and to the mods for fixing the thread title cheers :t:




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Sangahyando

Well-known member

• Feb 28, 2019

• #11

All birds are real life dinosaurs though. More so that crocodiles actually, who are "only" archosaurs (not saying that you meant the latter were dinosaurs, but it could be interpreted that way).

andyadcock said:

Russians call them Whaleheads.

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I can get behind that, the bill certainly is very unique among extant birds.

 

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Jan 31, 2020

• #12

Interesting video - these birds are just out of this world !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvA6E6cgBg






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Jon Turner

Well-known member

• Jan 31, 2020

• #13

andyadcock said:

Top target on my next trip in September, don't care if I don't see another single bird as long as we get this beast.

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It was the last bird I saw on my trip to Uganda in 2014. Very much worth the wait. Although I suppose I might have seen one in 1962 when we took a boat trip up the Nile to the bottom of Murchison Falls! Good luck!

 

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• May 27, 2020

• #14

'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-en...n12-rDXzoC9IJUsHSEgjKiVig-O8lmh3P6unp7U3EEQjw







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Chosun Juan

Given to Fly

• Jun 13, 2020

• #15

‘Most Terrifying Bird In The World’: Shoebill Stands 5ft Tall, Hunts Like A Boss

Okay so maybe the title is a bit OTT, but how cool are these dinosaurs, um I mean birds, um no, I mean dinosaurs !
Sadly, they rely on one of the rarest things on earth for their survival - fully functioning wetlands ...... :-C
https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/th...FQnhE3X-dXxCOG-FKgJ6iI7bsIFVySVqBm69APAhz1kvw








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