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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
Abdim's stork (Ciconia abdimii), also known as the white-bellied stork, is a stork belonging to the family Ciconiidae. It is the smallest species of stork, feeds mostly on insects, and is found widely in open habitats in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Yemen. The common name commemorates the Ottoman Albanian Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan, Bey El-Arnaut Abdim (1780–1827).
Distribution and habitat
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abdim's stork” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.