Saddlebilled Stork

While the Marabou (see previous in this gallery) is one of Africa's ugliest birds, the Saddlebilled Stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, is one of its most attractive birds!  It is huge, as tall as or taller than the marabou, exceeding 1.5m/5' in height, but is more slender and weighs less.  It is named for the yellow saddle-like frontal shield on top of its red and black bill.  It is interesting for being sexually dimorphic, the male and female looking different - BUT both sexes being equally impressive!  The difference is that the male has dark brown eyes, while the female has bright yellow eyes, and the male also has a pair of hardly-visible small yellow wattles at the base of his bill.  So this is the male.  Saddlebilled storks hunt fish, amphibians, reptiles and small mammals, most of the time wading in rivers or lakes.  I once saw one swallow a river turtle bigger than its head and about three times wider than its neck!  Pencil drawing, coloured in Photoshop.