{"id":783630,"date":"2026-05-09T05:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:54:24","slug":"marabou-stork-native-to-africa-spotted-across-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783630\/","title":{"rendered":"Marabou stork native to Africa spotted across Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA BIRD NATIVE TO AFRICA IS DRAWING ATTENTION ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. A MARABOU STORK HAS BEEN SPOTTED MULTIPLE TIMES SINCE TUESDAY, FROM FOND DU LAC TO APPLETON, GREEN BAY AND SHEBOYGAN. FORMER WILDLIFE RESCUER JESSICA SAUNDERS POSTED A PHOTO ON FACEBOOK HOPING TO TRACK IT DOWN. THAT POST QUICKLY WENT VIRAL. ONE FOND DU LAC MAN, WHO CAPTURED A PHOTO OF THE STORK SAYS HE COULDN\u2019T BELIEVE WHAT HE WAS SEEING. I WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND JUST ALL OF A SUDDEN SAW THAT BIG, MASSIVE BIRD NEXT DOOR UP ON TOP OF THAT ROOF, JUST LOOKING UP IN THE AIR. AND IT WAS JUST HUMONGOUS, SOMETHING I\u2019VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, SAUNDERS SAYS SHE\u2019S BEEN IN CONTACT WITH WILDLIFE OFFICIALS TO HELP FIGURE OUT WHERE THE STORK CAME FROM. SHE SAY\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Marabou stork native to Africa spotted across Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Since Tuesday, sightings have been reported in Fond du Lac, Appleton, Green Bay and Sheboygan.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 2:39 PM CDT May 8, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA marabou stork, a bird native to Africa, has been spotted in multiple cities across Wisconsin since Tuesday, including Fond du Lac, Appleton, Green Bay and Sheboygan. Its diet includes carrion, fish, termites, locusts, frogs, lizards, baby crocodiles, snakes, rats, mice and birds.Former wildlife rescuer Jessica Saunders posted a photo of the stork on Facebook in hopes of tracking it down. Saunders said she has been in contact with wildlife officials to help determine where the stork came from. She stressed the importance of catching the bird soon to prevent it from getting hurt or potentially harming others.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tSHEBOYGAN, Wis. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A marabou stork, a bird native to Africa, has been spotted in multiple cities across Wisconsin since Tuesday, including Fond du Lac, Appleton, Green Bay and Sheboygan. <\/p>\n

Its diet includes carrion, fish, termites, locusts, frogs, lizards, baby crocodiles, snakes, rats, mice and birds.<\/p>\n

Former wildlife rescuer Jessica Saunders posted a photo of the stork on Facebook in hopes of tracking it down. <\/p>\n

Saunders said she has been in contact with wildlife officials to help determine where the stork came from. She stressed the importance of catching the bird soon to prevent it from getting hurt or potentially harming others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BIRD NATIVE TO AFRICA IS DRAWING ATTENTION ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. A MARABOU STORK HAS BEEN SPOTTED MULTIPLE…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7779,320542,320543,320544,143574,320553,25236,71795,9251,320535,64441,5994,69743,113790,320545,320537,320538,320536,320539,320540,320546,320547,320548,107669,159,320541,27891,320549,320550,136899,67,132,68,837,1398,320551,320552],"class_list":{"0":"post-783630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-bird-in-wisconsin","10":"tag-african-bird-sighting-wisconsin","11":"tag-african-stork-in-wisconsin","12":"tag-appleton","13":"tag-baby-crocodile","14":"tag-bird","15":"tag-carrion","16":"tag-fish","17":"tag-fond-du-lac","18":"tag-frog","19":"tag-green-bay","20":"tag-lizard","21":"tag-locust","22":"tag-marabou-stork","23":"tag-marabou-stork-fond-du-lac","24":"tag-marabou-stork-green-bay","25":"tag-marabou-stork-marabou-stork-appleton","26":"tag-marabou-stork-sheboygan","27":"tag-marabou-stork-wisconsin","28":"tag-rare-bird-in-wisconsin","29":"tag-rare-bird-sighting-wisconsin","30":"tag-rare-bird-wisconsin","31":"tag-rat","32":"tag-science","33":"tag-sheboygan","34":"tag-snake","35":"tag-stork","36":"tag-stork-wisconsin","37":"tag-termite","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-unitedstates","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-wildlife","42":"tag-wisconsin","43":"tag-wisconsin-rare-bird-sighting","44":"tag-wisconsin-stork"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}