I can't blame anyone for not believing their eyes when they see a shoebill for the first time, not knowing beforehand such an amazing creature exists - especially if they thought it couldn't possibly be real and must be a statue at first XD Glad your recorded your reaction! I think it was hunting for fish in the water - either because there's actually fish there or out of instinct. Bird that size, probably spends all their time hunting and eating to sustain itself, out in the wild. "Posing for the picture" is also a fair theory LOL

It is an interesting creature.

The shoebill is the best is like a modern day dinosaur actually

There is no such thing as a shoebill stork, the correct name for this animal is shoebill, a stork is any species of the family Ciconiidae, one of the only three extant families of the order Ciconiiformes, the others being Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) and Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills), the shoebill is the only extant representative of the genus Balaeniceps and the family Balaenicipitidae, it's closest living relative is the hamerkop, which is the only living representative of the genus Scopus and the family Scopidae, the hamerkop and shoebill were traditionally included within Ciconiiformes and did not form a monophyletic group, but recent phylogenetic analysis revealed this not to be true, the hamerkop and shoebill actually shared a more recent common ancestor with each other and did not belong to the order Ciconiiformes, instead they were relocated to the order Pelecaniformes, this indicated that both the hamerkop and shoebill are actually more closely related to the pelicans, cormorants, shags, darters, frigatebirds, boobies, gannets, and tropicbirds than to the storks, herons, egrets, bitterns, ibises, and spoonbills, similarly the kagu and sunbittern were formerly included within the order Gruiformes, but were also relocated to Pelecaniformes, which happens to divide the order Pelecaniformes into four suborders, Eurypygae (contains 2 families: Rhynochetidae (Kagu) and Eurypygidae (Sunbittern)), Balaenicipites (contains 2 families: Scopidae (Hamerkop) and Balaenicipitidae (Shoebill)), Phaethontae (contains 1 family: Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds)), and Pelecani (contains 5 families: Sulidae (Boobies and Gannets), Fregatidae (Frigatebirds), Anhingidae (Darters), Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags), and Pelecanidae (Pelicans)), within Pelecaniformes, the suborders Eurypygae and Balaenicipites are both basal groups and each contain two families containing a single extant species, the suborder Balaenicipites is the sister group to a clade containing the suborders Phaethontae and Pelecani, whilst the suborder Eurypygae is the most basal extant suborder within the order Pelecaniformes, additionally, the orders Ciconiiformes (Storks, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills) and Pelecaniformes (Pelicans, Cormorants, Shags, Darters, Frigatebirds, Boobies, Gannets, Tropicbirds, Shoebill, Hamerkop, Sunbittern, and Kagu) are most closely related to each other and form the clade Ciconiopelecanae.