I do want to lay down one thing that I hope will happen as we learn the true identities of all these mysteriously intelligent animals: That the shoebill will be none of them. Additional dialog will reveal that the shoebill is just a shoebill, it's just a normal-ass animal that likes staring at people sometimes.

Because the best possible thing they could reveal about the shoebill given everyone's theories is to say that we were making a big deal out of just a normal bird.