White Storks and Zebra in Kruger National Park. Common food items include beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, earthworms, reptiles, amphibians, voles, moles, and shrews. Less commonly, they also eat bird eggs and young birds, fish, mollusks, crustaceans and scorpions. They hunt mainly during the day, swallowing small prey whole, but killing and breaking apart larger prey before swallowing.