How to look like the most bizarre birds (photo)
Great wings, chicken habits, curved beaks.
Hoatzin.
It lives in Africa, tropical birds large enough — it grows to 60 cm due to the rudimentary scallop and chicken beak before the hoatzin is considered a relative of the chicken.
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The hoatzin is almost flying. A bird kept in riverine thickets, where sitting in the trees. She eats leaves and fruits. Food is digested through fermentation in her large goiter. From this, the hoatzin has an unpleasant odor of manure.
The shoebill
This bird with a huge beak — a relative of the storks. Its second name — Royal Heron. The shoebill is a very large, it grows to 1.2 meters in height and can reach a weight of 7 kg.
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Handsome lives in the swamps of Central Africa. It feeds on fish, frogs, young snakes and turtles. Before you eat the fish, the bird usually raises her head.
Galapagos flightless cormorant
This relative pelicans inhabits the Galapagos Islands. The bird is not able to fly, its very small wings. Have black-brown cormorant extraordinary turquoise eyes, but in form it rather resembles a duck.
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These nocturnal birds are found in South and South-East Asia, Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and the Islands of Oceania. They are relatives of nightjars, and received its name because of the large tapered beak and throat, like that of a frog. With their help, they catch insects. When lagosanto can catch bigger prey, he strikes it several times on a rock and then swallows.
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Bright little bird with a total length up to 15 cm occurs in mountain forests on the Islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii. Beauty flies around the trees in search of flowers from which she extracts the nectar with its curved beak. Unfortunately, the flower population is shrinking due to avian malaria.
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