Talk:Saddle-billed stork/Archive 1

Hieroglyph
While no doubt the hieroglyph is of a stork, I find it dubious that it is of this specific species. The Saddle-billed Stork is not resident in either Upper or Lower Egypt. Nor is it migratory as are the White Stork and the Black Stork, both of which use the Nile as a flyway in their migrations. Carolina wren (talk) 23:26, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

The majority of Egyptologists accept the identification of the G29 hieroglyph and the Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) as there are other animal and avian species which are represented in the standard signlist that are not native to Upper or Lower Egypt; the giraffe and the elephant are just two examples of this.

The WorldBirds.com website lists Egypt as one of the countries visited by the Saddle-billed Stork - http://www.world-birds.com/birds/v/saddle-billed-stork.

Khonsura (talk) 22:43, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

the latest research paper on this subject appears to be fairly conclusive in terms of the identification of the Ba-Bird with the Saddle-billed Stork

--- Saddle-Billed Stork (Ba-Bird)by Janák, Jíří Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague Publication Date: 2014

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r77f2f8

(free PDF download) Khonsura (talk) 23:53, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Kruger NP
While I do know that anecdote is not the singular of fact, I find it quite weird to see that only a handful of these storks are supposed to live in the Kruger NP. When I visited it in 2014 for a week, they were pretty much omnipresent, and as I wasn't there for birdwatching, they were instantly recognisable on multiple occasions every day in different locations in the park — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C9:873C:EB00:18C2:AE5C:8CD:B475 (talk) 05:10, 2 February 2020 (UTC)