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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ciconia
- Named after
- Abidin Bey
- Image
- Cigogne d'Abdim MHNT.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Ciconia abdimii
- Commons category
- Ciconia abdimii
- Commons gallery
- Ciconia abdimii
- taxon common name
- cegonha-de-barriga-branca
- litter size
- 2.4
- egg incubation period
- 28
- short name
- C. abdimii
- taxon range
- Burkina Faso
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/2c04922c-82dd-4718-ab22-c9772408de9c
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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.