Hi Fleur,
What you have here is an Abdim's with a white tail, but I cannot say I
have ever heard of anything like this before,
best for now
Brian

On 3/15/19, Fleur Ng'weno fleur@africaonline.co.ke [kenyabirdsnet]
<kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Greetings birders
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> On the crane count March 7 near the KALRO Practical Training Centre near
> Thika, our team saw a stork circling overhead. Black Stork or Abdim’s? Soon
> they were four storks, all circling, but we kept changing our minds on the
> ID. The photos below by Paul Wachira show why.
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> One stork is obviously a Black Stork with a long red beak. I saw the long
> red beak clearly as flew down to land some distance away.
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> The other is an Abdim’s Stork – but the entire tail is white, not just the
> rump. The other two storks were not photographed.
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> Any comments?
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> Wishing you good birding, Fleur
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