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I used to occasionally see shoebills (hammerkops more often) on my commute past these swamps outside Kigali, Rwanda.
The marabou storks were more imposing, if rather less charming. A colleague told me "and you can't even eat them, their meat is acidic/poisonous", which must be frustrating in a country where meat is a luxury.
Ndeipi
A shoebill... they live in freshwater swamps in east/central Africa and are pretty rare. They are normally thought of as being a kind of stork, but I was talking about them yesterday and apparently genetic evidence shows they may be more closely related to a hammerkop.