Marabou Stork (Leptoptilus crumeniferus), Okavango Delta, Botswana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe Marabou Stork, sometimes known as the Undertaker Bird, is native to the dry and semi-arid regions that are located south of the Sahara Desert. This bird, which is often found in the vicinity of landfills, can gain up to 17 pounds in weight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Particularly when viewed from behind, this black bird gives the impression that it is donning a pair of white underpants. There have been sporadic sightings of birds with wingspans of up to 10 meters (33 feet). Once these birds reach sexual maturity, which they do at the age of four, they mate for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These birds are some of the largest and heaviest creatures that can take to the sky, and they include species from all corners of the globe. Learn about their amazing size, impressive wingspans, and more! Kori Bustard Scientific name: (Ardeotis kori) Type: omnivores\u00a0 Wing span: 7 \u2013 9 ft The Kori Bustard is the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}