Among certain African tribes the Hammerkop is believed to be the lightning bird.

As African birds go, the hammerkop, or hammer-headed stork, is not prepossessing.

The hammerkop, as Mr. Page also says, "may be the silliest looking and funniest acting bird in the world."

A Neanderthal-looking hammerkop - a wading bird with an outsize, anvil-shaped head - probed the banks for frogs.

Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta)

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For example, a family of Egyptian geese takes over a vacated hammerkop nest; one of the gosling offspring falls out of the nest and into a river.

Lorenz Oken in 1817 changed this to Scopus, also under the impression that Scops was the older name for the hammerkop, and valid.

In 1760, Mathurin Jacques Brisson had established the genus Scopus for the hammerkop, a peculiar African bird.

The Pelecaniformes in particular have a distinct hook or "nail" on the billtip, which is even present in the otherwise plesiomorphic bill of the Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta).

The delta also includes over 400 species of birds, including African Fish Eagle, Pel's Fishing Owl, Crested Crane, Lilac-breasted Roller, Hammerkop, Ostrich, and Sacred Ibis.

The Noun River hosts hippopotamus that can be seen all year long, in the wild parts of the river, along with many birds, such as the Palm nut Vulture, the bee-eater, the hammerkop, and the kingfisher.

The Shoebill and the Hammerkop ('Scopus umbretta') are the "missing links" that connect pelicans and storks, and including the pelican lineage in the Ciconiiformes expresses this more adequately than other treatments do.

Long thought to be related to frigatebirds, cormorants, tropicbirds, gannets and boobies, pelicans are now known instead to be most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop, and are placed in the order Pelecaniformes.

Some have patches of iridescent feathers, or brownish or reddish hues, but these are rare and limited in extent, and those species in which they are found (e.g. bitterns, ibises or the Hammerkop) are generally only found in freshwater habitat.

The Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), also known as Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead Stork, Umbrette, Umber Bird, Tufted Umber, or Anvilhead, is a medium-sized wading bird (56 cm long, weighing 470 g).

Sometimes the old nest of a Hamerkop is used.

The Hamerkop has partially webbed feet, for unknown reasons.

There are many legends about the Hamerkop.

They also believe that the inimical god Khauna would not like anyone to kill a Hamerkop.

The Hamerkop is usually included in the Ciconiiformes, but might be closer to the Pelecaniformes.

The strangest aspect of Hamerkop behavior is the huge nest, sometimes more than 1.5 m across, comprising perhaps 10,000 sticks and strong enough to support a man's weight.

Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta)

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The eggs are usually laid in the nest of a Hamerkop; most often an unoccupied nest but occasionally Hamerkops will be forced out.

Reviewing genetic evidence to date, Cracraft and colleagues surmised that pelicans were sister to the shoebill with the hamerkop as the next earlier offshoot.

In their place, herons, ibises, spoonbills, the Hamerkop and the Shoebill have now been transferred into Pelecaniformes.

The Hamerkop, which is a sedentary bird that often show local movements, is not globally threatened and is locally abundant in Africa and Madagascar.

The ǀXam informants of Wilhelm Bleek said that when a Hamerkop flew and called over their camp, they knew that someone close to them had died.

Morphological study has suggested pelicans are sister to a gannet-cormorant clade, yet genetic analysis groups them with the hamerkop and shoebill, though the exact relationship between the three is unclear.

Scopus, a database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles, received its name in honor of this bird, as the Hamerkop is renowned for its superior navigation skills.

But pelicans, the namesake family of the Pelecaniformes, are actually closer related to herons, ibises and spoonbills, the hamerkop and the shoebill than to the sulids and allies.

They may use a variety of sites for nesting, including old weaver, Hamerkop, Secretarybird or other raptor nests the size of huge platiform nests constructed by Old World vultures.

The Hamerkop occurs in Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar and coastal southwest Arabia in all wetland habitats, including irrigated land such as rice paddies, as well as in savannas and forests.

The Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), also known as Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead Stork, Umbrette, Umber Bird, Tufted Umber, or Anvilhead, is a medium-sized wading bird (56 cm long, weighing 470 g).

Much later, they came back together to work for Hammerhead.

The thing looked like no fish the hammerhead had ever seen.

Hammerhead has cheated certain death several times over the years.

He is brought to the Hammerheads and joins their cause.

The hammerhead crane has not been used for many years.

Hammerhead Jack and myself are the last in, following the first mate.

But I can tell the difference between a great white and a hammerhead."

The first was the bigger, a hammerhead, nearly twelve feet long.

A hammerhead was later found in the rubbish at his old house.

Hammerhead Jack then tells the story of the battle so everyone might hear it first hand.

Her knees hit the surface like a pair of hammerheads.

The hammerhead is out to get me, and no politeness about it.

Until now we had caught only glimpses of the hammerheads - but here they were present in force.

She swung it, and watched the hammerhead catch the light.

These attacks could be caused from the great hammerhead shark.

It sounded almost as if Hammerhead had somehow joined them.

They are about to get away, but Hammerhead spikes their car, thus getting arrested.

She has a dislike for Hammerhead, due to the fact that they used to date.

"She was having trouble with the Hammerheads and needed a strong hand to subdue them."

I was to report for space duty to the destroyer Hammerhead.

The hammerhead shark is thought to be the birth animal of some children.

Adult smooth hammerheads are either solitary or form small groups.

They were mentioned and seem to work for Hammerhead.

This version seems to be an enforcer working for Hammerhead.

Hammerheads are available in weights ranging from 16 to 22 ounces.

Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta)

There are two subspecies, Scopus umbretta umbretta and Scopus umbreta minor.

SCOPIDAE Scopus umbretta (Hamerkop)

The Pelecaniformes in particular have a distinct hook or "nail" on the billtip, which is even present in the otherwise plesiomorphic bill of the Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta).

The Shoebill and the Hammerkop ('Scopus umbretta') are the "missing links" that connect pelicans and storks, and including the pelican lineage in the Ciconiiformes expresses this more adequately than other treatments do.

The Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), also known as Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead Stork, Umbrette, Umber Bird, Tufted Umber, or Anvilhead, is a medium-sized wading bird (56 cm long, weighing 470 g).