Laurent Geslin / Rear view of Saddlebill stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) fishing in a pond with wings stretched out, Khwai, Okavango Delta, Moremi reserve, Botswana

David Tipling / Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), Masai Mara, Kenya

Christophe Courteau / Yellow-eyed Saddle-Billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) female in the Okavango Delta Wetlands, Botswana

Christophe Courteau / Saddle-billed stork (Saddle bill) {Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis} Moremi GR,

Oriol Alamany / Saddlebilled stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) in flight, Kruger National Park, Transvaal, South Africa, September.

Roy Mangersnes / Saddlebill stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) in flight, silhouetted at sunrise, Okavango Delta, Botswana, November.

Brent Stephenson / Pair of Saddle-billed Storks (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) in flight over Mapungabwe World Heritage Site. Near the Zimbabwe border, South Africa, January.

Sergey Gorshkov / Two Saddlebill storks (Ephiorhynchus senegalensis) one preening, Okavango delta, Botswana, April

Anup Shah / Saddle bill Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) head portrait of female, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. February

Christophe Courteau / Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) Okavango Delta, Botswana, March

Christophe Courteau / Saddle-billed stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) Okavango Delta, Botswana, March

Richard Du Toit / Saddlebill stork (Ephippiorrynchus senegalensis) foraging, Chobe NP, Botswana, December