Ciconiiformes

Hamerkop (Scopidae)

HBW 1, p. 430 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 1 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-sized wading birds with heavy bill and singular backward-pointing crest.
• Afrotropical Region.
• Woodland and wetlands.
• 1 genus, 1 species, 2 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.