Other places to find shoebills in Africa include Rwanda, Zambia, Sudan, Tanzania, eastern Congo, Cameroon, Botswana and Kenya among others that have wetland areas with plenty of food for the shoebill stork, good hiding places against the attack from their predators and breeding grounds for the endangered rare shoebill stork since they normally prefer building their nests in the open marshes of the vegetation cover and most preferably in the swamps where they lay a maximum of three eggs In fact, Uganda is a birders paradise with very many unique and rare bird species in the world. Some of the best places to encounter then while on a trip include Mabamba Swamp close to Lake Victoria, Lake Mburo national park, Queen Elizabeth national park with in the swamp in the Ishasha sector, Semliki wildlife reserve, and Ziwa rhino sanctuary without forgetting Nabajuzi swamp in Masaka region. In Africa, they are found in different destinations such as Uganda which is home to about 1000 shoebills that are easily traced in different locations in Uganda during birding, boat cruise, and game drive. The shoebill storks are common in Africa due to the nature of the vegetation that favors them. Shoebill stork inhabits places with water and very thick marshes which create a good hiding place for them as they target their meals. Shoebill storks are both nocturnal and water birds due to the fact that they prefer spending their time along with water bodies and in the hideouts. ![]() Other factors affecting the population of shoebill stork include power production, pollution, epidemic diseases, changes in climatic conditions such as drought, and other factors including political instabilities that lead to wars, agricultural practices such as mining and farming that have led to clearing of swamps thus leading destruction of habitats for the shoebill storks and for the case with Uganda, The estimated population of rare shoebill stork remains approximately 1000 that are still surviving in Uganda the pearl of Africa making Uganda one of the topmost places to visit if you really want to encounter the rare shoebill in their own natural habitats. ![]() This is due to the fact that several fishermen hunt them and kill them whenever they find their on their fishing grounds believing that they bring bad omen. The population of Shoebill storks is marked as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with the remaining bird species estimated to be less than 10,000.
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