bird · Ciconiiformes · Ciconiidae

Abdim's Stork

Ciconia abdimii Lichtenstein, 1823 — also called ABST, white-bellied stork. Occurrence records of the Abdim's Stork are shared on GBIF from around 4 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Plovers Lake (11 records), in 2 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernCiconiidae

4reserves with records

22records around them

2provinces

LCIUCN category

Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii) — Photo: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Plovers LakeProtected heritage site	GP Gauteng	11
Magaliesberg Biosphere ReserveBiosphere reserve	GP Gauteng	6
Spitskop NatuurtuinNature reserve	NC Northern Cape	3
The Koppie Nature ReserveNature reserve	NC Northern Cape	2

By province

Gauteng: 2 reserves
Northern Cape: 2 reserves

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ciconiidae
Scientific name: Ciconia abdimii
GBIF taxon: 2481915
Wikidata: Q308199

More of the Ciconiidae family

African Woolly-necked Stork Yellow-billed Stork White Stork Woolly-necked Stork Black Stork Saddle-billed Stork Marabou Stork

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.