{"id":48,"date":"2023-10-08T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviaspreview.com\/wp\/orgarium\/?p=48"},"modified":"2023-10-12T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T03:00:49","slug":"about-the-shoebill-stork-and-birding-tours-in-mabamba-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/2023\/10\/08\/about-the-shoebill-stork-and-birding-tours-in-mabamba-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Shoebill Stork and Birding Tours in Mabamba Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known locally as \u201cBbulwe\u201d, the Shoebill Stork gets its name from it huge shoe-shaped bill. The Shoebill stork is the most sought out bird in Uganda. It is a shy and intriguing bird with a mysterious physical appearance. Its most striking feature is a massive, uneven, large and yellow colored bill. Shoebill Storks are considered by some to be an ugly bird which looks like a creature straight out of the Jurassic age. Regardless what some think, tourists and seasoned birders find them very fascinating. Hundreds of birders flock to Uganda purposely to see these large birds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-swamp-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-swamp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-swamp.jpg 500w\" alt=\"Mabamba Bay Wetland\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/>Shoebills are found in the papyrus swamps of Sub-Saharan Africa including DR Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Sudan. Uganda has about 1000 individuals. The Shoebill Storks in Uganda can also be sighted in\u00a0Queen Elizabeth National Park\u00a0(Ishasha Sector), Nabajuzi Swamp (in Masaka), Murchison Falls Park,\u00a0Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Lake Mburo National Park, Semliki Wildlife Reserve and around Lake Kyoga. Shoebill Storks love Lungfish but will also feed on smaller water birds, water snakes, frogs, lizards, Turtles, Crocodiles (young), Snails and Rodents. Their favorite food in Mabamba is Lungfish. The fish thrive here because many Baganda people do not eat them. One of the Baganda clans is named after the lungfish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-bay-300x198.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-bay-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverbackgorillatours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shoebill-stork-mabamba-bay.jpg 499w\" alt=\"Mabamba Bay Wetland in Uganda\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/>The Shoebill Stork is a solitary bird. Two pairs only get together during the breeding season. The breeding season generally occurs during the dry season \u2013 perhaps to prevent the nests from getting damaged by heavy floods. Females lay between one to three eggs. The male and female both share incubation roles until the chicks hatch. After hatching, the pair has a task of feeding their young until they are can look for food on their own. It takes between 3 to 4 years for the young ones to start breeding. Usually only one survives up to adulthood (the strongest one). Adult Shoebills weigh about 14 pounds and can live for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many variations of but the majority have simply free text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[22,23,24],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mabamba-swamp","category-shoebill-stock","tag-birding-uganda","tag-birds-uganda","tag-uganda-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabambashoebillwatching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}