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Adult shoebills clatter massive shoe-shaped bills during nest greetings. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Shoebill storks produce machine-gun clattering sounds with their beaks

Adult shoebills clatter massive shoe-shaped bills during nest greetings.

The shoebill stork stands up to 1.5 metres tall in East African freshwater swamps. To communicate with mates around nest sites, the bird snaps its massive hook-tipped bill shut repeatedly, producing loud echoing clatter sounds resembling burst machine-gun fire.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Adult shoebills clatter massive shoe-shaped bills during nest greetings. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a animals fact?: Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.