Marabou stork and white underparts. It has a huge bill, a pink gular sac at its throat ("crumenifer(us)" means "carrier of a pouch for money"), a neck ruff, and black legs and wings. The sexes are alike, but the young bird is browner and has a smaller bill. Full maturity is not reached for up to four years. Like most storks, the marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In the African dry season (when food is more readily available as the pools shrink), it builds a tree nest in which two or three eggs are laid. It is known to be
Marabou (ethnicity) the resemblance between dark-skinned Indians and marabous. Describing Marabous as an ethnic group is a stretch since the term applies to any person of mixed heritage with dark skin and straight or wavy hair. Marabous are no more an ethnic group than grimeaus, mulattoes, quadroons, or octoroons are; these terms merely describe the different phenotypes of mixed-race people. Marabou (ethnicity) Marabou () is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term describes the offspring of a Haitian person of mixed race: Africans, Europeans, Taíno Indian and South Asians (East Indians) ancestry. The Marabou label dates to the colonial