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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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That thing is poison.
From Wikipedia:
The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird". Like most storks, the marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink) it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid. It is known to be quite ill-tempered. A number of endoparasites have been identified in wild marabous including Cheilospirura, Echinura and Acuaria nematodes, Amoebotaenia sphenoides (Cestoda) and Dicrocoelium hospes (Trematoda).
The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces but will opportunistically eat almost any animal matter it can swallow. As with vultures, marabou storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste. Increasingly, marabous have become dependent on human garbage and hundreds of the huge birds can be found around African dumps. Marabous eating human garbage have been seen to devour virtually anything that they can swallow, including shoes and pieces of metal.
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Rank: Elder You have been a member since:: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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hardwood wrote:That thing is poison.
From Wikipedia:
The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird". Like most storks, the marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink) it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid. It is known to be quite ill-tempered. A number of endoparasites have been identified in wild marabous including Cheilospirura, Echinura and Acuaria nematodes, Amoebotaenia sphenoides (Cestoda) and Dicrocoelium hospes (Trematoda).
The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces but will opportunistically eat almost any animal matter it can swallow. As with vultures, marabou storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste. Increasingly, marabous have become dependent on human garbage and hundreds of the huge birds can be found around African dumps. Marabous eating human garbage have been seen to devour virtually anything that they can swallow, including shoes and pieces of metal. it's not poisonous... there are only few species of birds that are POISONOUS...(the Quail is actually one of them depending on what it has eaten) one would be ill advised to eat a marabou... but the same way they would be ill advised to eat a crow or a vulture! I suspect they are not tasty to begin with. the endoparasites could be killed (and converted to a source of protein) by cooking the bird properly!! All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/3/2008 Posts: 4,058 Location: Gwitu
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masukuma wrote:hardwood wrote:That thing is poison.
From Wikipedia:
The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird". Like most storks, the marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink) it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid. It is known to be quite ill-tempered. A number of endoparasites have been identified in wild marabous including Cheilospirura, Echinura and Acuaria nematodes, Amoebotaenia sphenoides (Cestoda) and Dicrocoelium hospes (Trematoda).
The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces but will opportunistically eat almost any animal matter it can swallow. As with vultures, marabou storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste. Increasingly, marabous have become dependent on human garbage and hundreds of the huge birds can be found around African dumps. Marabous eating human garbage have been seen to devour virtually anything that they can swallow, including shoes and pieces of metal. it's not poisonous... there are only few species of birds that are POISONOUS...(the Quail is actually one of them depending on what it has eaten) one would be ill advised to eat a marabou... but the same way they would be ill advised to eat a crow or a vulture! I suspect they are not tasty to begin with. the endoparasites could be killed (and converted to a source of protein) by cooking the bird properly!! The meat should be ok provided you remove the matumbos carefully. Their shit is acidic as evidenced by corrosion of tarmac near Nyayo stadium Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the throne (James Russell Rowell)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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kaka2za wrote:masukuma wrote:hardwood wrote:That thing is poison.
From Wikipedia:
The marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird". Like most storks, the marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink) it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid. It is known to be quite ill-tempered. A number of endoparasites have been identified in wild marabous including Cheilospirura, Echinura and Acuaria nematodes, Amoebotaenia sphenoides (Cestoda) and Dicrocoelium hospes (Trematoda).
The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. This large and powerful bird eats mainly carrion, scraps and faeces but will opportunistically eat almost any animal matter it can swallow. As with vultures, marabou storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste. Increasingly, marabous have become dependent on human garbage and hundreds of the huge birds can be found around African dumps. Marabous eating human garbage have been seen to devour virtually anything that they can swallow, including shoes and pieces of metal. it's not poisonous... there are only few species of birds that are POISONOUS...(the Quail is actually one of them depending on what it has eaten) one would be ill advised to eat a marabou... but the same way they would be ill advised to eat a crow or a vulture! I suspect they are not tasty to begin with. the endoparasites could be killed (and converted to a source of protein) by cooking the bird properly!! The meat should be ok provided you remove the matumbos carefully. Their shit is acidic as evidenced by corrosion of tarmac near Nyayo stadium We are supposed to eat organisms that are below us on the food chain, not those above us like this ugly 'undertaker' bird. In nature, it is supposed to eat us when we die.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Impunity wrote:What would you rather eat, a marabou stork or a chicken fed on ARVs? Give up on animal protein , si kuna maharagwe na ndengu !!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2014 Posts: 1,420 Location: Bohemian Grove
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I hope these birds aren't found in Eldoret. I had lunch there about one week ago and that piece of chicken in retrospect looked suspiciously large.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,331 Location: Masada
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whiteowl wrote:I hope these birds aren't found in Eldoret. I had lunch there about one week ago and that piece of chicken in retrospect looked suspiciously large. Pole sana,Eldoret kwanza kuna worse birds...hapo wanachinja mpaka hornbill from Turbo forest. Portfolio: Sold You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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