Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)
Pair of Grey crowned cranes "kissing"
Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans on a Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach
Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus
Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) atop a Euphorbia plant
Pair of African crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum)
Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis
African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on a beach along the Kazinga Channel
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) drying its wings in the sun
Hundreds of cormorants and pelicans gathered on a sanbar
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) with its mouth slightly agape
Flock of Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) on the African savanna
Flock of African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on the Kazinga Channel
Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
Goliath heron, Ardea goliath, in Uganda
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, with pied kingfishers in the background
African skimmers on a beach along the Kazinga Channel
Group of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on a beach of the Kazinga Channel
Buffalo, pelicans, cormorants on a sandbar in the Kazinga Channel
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens), and Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
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Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, walking in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel
Immature Black-headed heron
Pair of Hadada ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) crossing a trail.
Hadida ibis in a tree
Hadada ibis getting fiesty in a tree
Black-headed Heron on a Euphorbia tree
Flock of Grey crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum) feeding near a waterhole
Grey crowned cranes near a savanna waterhole
Large flock of African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) over the Kazinga Channel
Yellow-billed Stork along the Kazinga channel
Yellow-billed Stork, Mycteria ibis, along the Kazinga channel
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta
Hadada ibis standing in reeds along the Kazinga Channel
Goliath heron, Ardea goliath
Goliath heron, Ardea goliath, along the Kazinga Channel
Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus, in flight
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus
Green-eyed great cormorant
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Buffalo, pelicans, cormorants on a sandbar
Pelicans, cormorants, and other birds on a sandbar in the Kazinga Channel
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans, Little egret, yellow-billed storks on a beach
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans, Little egret, yellow-billed storks
Yellow-billed storks, Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans, Little egret together on a beach
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans, Little egret, yellow-billed storks together on a Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach
Pelicans and cormorants on the sandy shore of Lake Edward
Gull-billed terns, great cormorants, great white pelicans, and pink-backed pelicans
Large numbers of waterbirds on the shore of Lake Edward
Many waterbirds on the shore of Lake Edward
Great cormorants
Yellow-billed storks
Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) in flight
Marabou stork flying overhead
Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) [headshot]
Black-headed heron (Ardea melanocephala) [immature]
Egyptian Goose in greenish water
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), a stork-like bird
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