The Big Bird of the Pantanal is the jabiru stork, as tall as a Mini, which stood decorously by ponds before skewering unfortunate fish. |
A row of chocolate babies stood outside that nest, with four jabiru storks among them. |
A jabiru stork saw it from downstream, solemnly squatting on four eggs which eventually would perpetuate the race. |
The marshes at the mouth of the Rio Tempisque at Palo Verde National Park are the last stronghold of the jabiru in Central America. |
Along waterways and ponds you're likely to see parrots and macaws, hawks and jabiru storks. |
The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through which you have just passed. |