Daniel first spotted these marabou storks as they patiently waited on the sidelines, watching as a group of vultures fed on a zebra carcass. Seizing the opportunity, he quickly set up his camera and retreated to a nearby wall to wait for the shot. Not long after, the vultures left the scene and the storks approached the carcass to feast.
During the wildebeest and zebra migration, food in the Serengeti National Park is in plentiful supply for opportunists like the marabou stork. Despite their size, their huge beaks are delicate and unwieldy, and the storks must wait for other scavengers, like vultures, to tear open a carcass.
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Daniel has a master's in biology and has always been interested in nature. He has taken two long trips by bicycle: one from the North Cape in Norway to Cape Town, South Africa, and one from the southern tip of South America to Quito in Ecuador. For five years he lived in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, conducting fieldwork for lion research. He now works for the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
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