Birds of Peru

    ANSERIFORMES: Anhimidae (Screamers)  
Genus: Anhima (1 species, 1 worldwide)


Horned Screamer
Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta)
Mocagua, Amazonas, Colombia
  Note single spike coming out of forehead.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A very large bird in the same order but different family than ducks.
At a nest with four eggs.


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