The Shoe-Faced Menace

• Photographer
  Pavlos Evangelidis
• Technical Info
  Sony A6000, Fe-200-600, 1/640s, F/8, Iso 640
• Photo Date
  25 December 2020

Deep in the remote, dense and little-explored swamps of East Africa lives an unusual bird with a shoe for a face. The Shoebill is a rare, endangered bird, whose population is documented to be less than 5000 in the wild and has evolved only a little since the dinosaurs were around.