Saddle-billed+Stork

The Saddle-billed stork is a five foot bird with about a eight to nine foot wingspan. Being the tallest of the stork family but not the heaviest, only weighing around fourteen pounds. The diet is mainly fish, crabs, and frogs. Their bills usually measure out to be about one foot in length, gender can be easily be determined by eye color, females having a golden yellow iris, and males having brown irises with dangling yellow wattles. The long bill is red, with a black band and a yellow “saddle” directly in front of their eyes. Except for bill clattering, the storks are silent birds. They breed in forests around wetlands. After carrying them for 30 to 35 day, they lay only one or two large white eggs, which take 70 to 100 days to hatch.