Shoebill eating crocodile6/30/2023 Although his rescue of the silent night predators waiting to pounce on prey with great speed and accuracy And then swallowed up in just a few seconds,And when a prey fish cutting her head first before it eat it. "It feeds on anything moves."the observers found him greedily devoured mice, reptiles ,snakes and frogs,Also other small birds like amphibians and fish, even small crocodiles did not survive the huge beak. With blue-gray plumage, strong necks ,long legs, and a head resembling a shoe, so the Sudanese called it boot. Swan bird is somehow a large bird, its tall is up to about 120 cm, weighs about seven kilograms.While the length of the wings is about 2.30 meters,featured male swan bird with larger size. which increases the size of the head more than double up to 23 centimeter. "Abu Merkoub," or "Shoebill ," or "The whale's head," are all names of this strange bird, He settled for thousands of years in the African continent, living in the swamps of the Upper Nile, from Sudan to Uganda, to the south of the Congo And adjacent to the plains, and called the scientists of birds this name because of its huge beak. Despite belonging to the world of birds, the researchers of "ornithology" or the science of birds found it difficult to classify, In their opinion, there is no such thing as that strange creature, it is sometimes like a swan, "The swan is one of the finest living creatures on the surface of the earth, which is characterized by the size and length of wings, which may reach up to 10 feet (about 3 meters), and despite the magnitude, but God gave her bones hollow and light enables them to fly and fly To high heights of more than 10 thousand feet (3,000 meters) within warm currents", It is sometimes characterized by qualities of Stork and sometimes similar to the bird "Heron", but it doesn't belong to one of them.so It was classified as a separate race.
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