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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- P105
- species
- P141
- Least Concern
- P9714
- Burkina Faso
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Article
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