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	Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hammerkop is a dusky brown water bird about the size of a cattle egret--about 20 inches long.
		The Hammerkop feeds largely on frogs and tadpoles.
		The Hammerkop is noted for the enormous size of its nest which it prefers to build of sticks in a tree fork near water.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /hammerkop.htm (425 words)

	Hamerkop or Hammerhead - Scopus umbretta - Ombrette africaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hammerkop stalks its preys by wading in shallow water, and striking forward with the bill; then, it deposes the prey on the ground before to eat.
		The bulky nest often is compared to an apartment, housing several generations of Hammerkops or other animals such as bees, mongooses, lizards and snakes.
		It is hold in a position of respect, and Hammerkops survive and flourish in the presence of men.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/ciconiiformes/hamerkop.or.hammerhead.html (743 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Animals birds - hammerkop natural history
		The Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta), about the size of a small egret, is entirely brown, with a robust crest which gives its head a hammer-like appearance.
		Abandoned nests are frequented by other animals seeking shelter, including other birds, notably birds of prey who lay their own eggs in them.
		Hammerkops feed mostly on frogs and tadpoles, and they also take small crustaceans, grasshoppers, and aquatic insects.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/birds/hammerkopnathist.shtml (318 words)

	Hammerkop
		The Hammerkop Scopus umbretta is a medium sized bird with a long shaggy crest.
		The Hammerkop family is one of the families in the order Ciconiiformes, which also includes other wading bird groups:
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hammerkop.html (160 words)

	The Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park \|\|\| Animal Of the Month \|\|\| Wart Hog \|\|\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You may find Hammerkops near fresh water lakes, ponds, swamps and marshes of Arabia, Africa and Madagascar.
		Hammerkops are not endangered, but are under threat from habitat loss and wetland drainage.
		There are two hammerkops building a large nest in their habitat at The Oakland Zoo.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /aom/hammerkop.html (187 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They are found around swamps, lakes, rivers, ponds, streams and other waterways in the forests and savanna of sub-Saharan Africa and the island of Madagascar.
		Even when the hammerkops are in residence, sparrows and other small birds, snakes, genets, and monitor lizards will use them for sleeping.
		Their numbers are increasing, probably due to creation of artificial wetlands, however they could suffer from the deterioration of water quality due to excessive use of pesticides.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=88 (441 words)

	Dave Taylor's African Safari: Trophic Level III: Omnivores and Small Carnivores - Hammerkop - Page 10
		Habitat: Hammerkops are found along the muddy margins of streams, ponds, rivers and lakes.
		The huge nest is used by a variety of other species that either live or nest on it.
		Eagle owls, Egyptian geese, some raptors, snakes and bees are all known to use a hammerkop’s nest.
	www.sensesofwildness.com /africa/2_4/04_10.HTM (353 words)

	Gallinule
		Moorhen was bred by, and started her career on the turf in the colors of, the Duke of Devonshire, and won a selling plate for him at age three.
		He was a noted sire of good juveniles: of his 197 winners between 1893 and 1911, 111 of them won as two year olds.
		Irish-bred HAMMERKOP (1900), from the non-winning Concussion, by Reverberation, was another great staying daughter of Gallinule bred by Eustace Loder at his Eyrefield Lodge.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Gallinule.html (5050 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hammerkop (1900) Racing for eight seasons, Hammerkop was a fast juvenile, Oaks runner-up and resolute...
		Hammerkops are odd birds, distant relatives of the storks...
		The Hammerkops nest inside these structures, but the roofs are...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=hammerkop&refid=ency_botnm (362 words)

	hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The hammerkop have many legends and superstitions connected with them.
		Hammerkop Scopus umbretta Fascinating Facts At two feet tall, it's the smallest species of stork.
		Junglephotos Africa birds hammerkop photos and information HAMMERKOP Click on the image to return to the gallery The Hammerhead is in Africa usually called the Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta).
	hammerkop.networklive.org (217 words)

	Hammerkop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) is a medium sized (56cm) (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) bird with a long shaggy crest.
		The Hammerkop in included in the (Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises) Ciconiiformes, which also includes other wading bird groups.
		However, it is a ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera) family (Scopidae) and ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species) genus (Scopus) all on its own:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Hammerkop.htm (403 words)

	Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The sanctuary is really one huge cage that you can walk into and bird watch while birds fly all around you.
		I have stayed for a few hours watching the birds and various people and it always amazed me how many people walked right by the hammerkop and never saw him.
		Now you can see why he is called a hammerkop.
	us.geocities.com /Heartland/Farm/2636/Hammerkop.html (161 words)

	Egg-stra special nests - News - London Zoo - ZSL
		Their dome shaped nest can be compared to an apartment building, as in the wild they house several generations of hammerkops and other animals as well.
		Generally hammerkops lay between 3 and 6 eggs at a time and we are hoping some of this seasons' might be fertile, bringing chicks for the pair in the spring.
		The hammerkop Scopus umbretta is relatively common in South West Africa.
	www.zsl.org /text-only/london-zoo/news/egg-stra-special-nests,122,NS.html (310 words)

	Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		El Hammerkop (umbretta de Scopus) es un pájaro de tamaño mediano (de los 56cm) con una cresta shaggy larga.
		La forma de su cabeza con una cuenta y una cresta curvadas en la parte posteriora es evocadora de un martillo, por lo tanto de su nombre.
		El Hammerkop en incluido en el Ciconiiformes, que también incluye otros grupos del pájaro que vadean.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ha/Hammerkop.htm (182 words)

	Death. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For mother and the others did not want to hear the story which it came to tell; for they knew that the hammerkop does in this manner at the time when a man dies, that is the time at which it comes to us, it tells us about it, that the man has died.
		Of this bird, the Seopus umbrella, or Hammerkop, the following description is given in "The Birds of South Africa" by E.L. Layard, Cape Town, 1867, p.
		that the hammerkop is a thing which lives at that water in which we see all things.
	www.allstarz.org /religioustext/afr/sbf/sbf79.htm (1010 words)

	Three Cries of the Hammerkop (short story) by Sharon L Cullars on AuthorsDen
		The Hottentots believed that in the same way they can see their reflections mirrored in still water, a hammerkop bird can see reflections of the future, and knows who is shortly going to die.
		The hammerkop will watch for the falling star which prophesies death, as it falls above the area of the dwelling in which someone is about to die.
		Little Rana listened to the hammerkop fluttering outside her window, then watched listlessly as the bird landed on the sill and gave three raucous cries.
	www.authorsden.com /visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=3479 (3315 words)

	Hammerkop Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Hammerkop (337 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some cultures consider it to be magical and others consider it an evil omen.
		It is thought by some to be a “shape-changer” since people see the hammerkop fly in and then see another animal, such as a cobra, leave the nest.
		Since it is held in a position of respect, the bird survives and flourishes in the presence of man.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azhammer.html (460 words)

	ANIMAL BYTES - Hammerkop
		The hammerkop has an all brown body, partially webbed toes, a short tail and huge wings.
		It has a distinctive large, crest on the back of the head and a thick, long beak.
		According to superstitions, hammerkops are bad omens, and it is considered bad luck to harm them.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/ciconiiformes/hammerkop.htm (286 words)

	Portfolios.com - Full size page
		This picture is to illustrate one of my own stories about the African bushveld where I grew up.
		The hammerkop [hammerhead] is an unusual bird that builds a nest weighing several hundred pounds in a large tree.
		I tried to achieve a mystical look to the forest that would intrigue children and encourage them to want to know more.
	www.portfolios.com /zoom.html?User_number=andytoons&imagecount=10 (79 words)

	African Master Sculptors
		The hammerkop, also called the Lightning Bird, is a South African bird once believed to bring the heavy rains.
		When rain threatened to get too high, tribal herbalists would hang the bird upside down over a river that was rising.
		They claimed that the hammerkop would make the rain stop to prevent itself from drowning.
	www.africarving.com /pages/masters/Page2.html (482 words)

	Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) :: Rhenosterspruit - a registered nature conservancy :: dedicated to conservation and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) :: Rhenosterspruit - a registered nature conservancy :: dedicated to conservation and sharing information
		Not an endangered species, but they are under threat as their natural habitat is encroached on by the expanding urban areas.
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	Edenwood Guest House, 9 Hammerkop Street, Eden, George, www.edenwood.co.za. Accommodation George, Garden Route, Western ...
		Welcome to Edenwood Guest House, situated in George the capital city and geographical hub of the Garden Route.
		Drive past the Retirement Village and take next left into Bokmakerrie Street, down a steep hill towards the forest and after curve in the road, take the next left into Hammerkop Street.
		We are No.9, the large white house with a green roof and the South African Flag outside.
	www.sleeping-out.co.za /member_details-MemberID-1965.html (870 words)

	Hammerkop
		This is the definition of the term Hammerkop
		Hammerkop (n.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
		For people who have trouble spelling, this is the defintion of the term Hammerkop
	linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/hammerkop (77 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Stork
		• The hammerkop builds a domed, enclosed nest unique to the bird world.
		Hammerkop pairs continually add sticks and twigs to their unique domed nests, even when they have no chicks or eggs to care for.
		The nests are mostly made of sticks, which the male finds and brings back and the female puts in place.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-stork.html (1288 words)

	Hammerkop - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Genus:''Scopus'' Species:''umbretta '' Binomial_name ''Scopus umbretta'' J._F._Gmelin, 1789 The Hammerkop (''Scopus umbretta'') is a medium sized (56cm) bird with a long shaggy crest.
		A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
		Wading Birds: From Herons to Hammerkops (Animals in Order)
	www.erdmond.com /Hammerkop.html (208 words)

	Define Hammerkop : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	botswana.ca - Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	kiev.ca - Hammerkop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Physical Characteristics: The Hammerkop is a dusky brown water bird about the size of...
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