Horned Screamer Anhima cornuta
Horned Screamer, Amazonas, July 2001 - click for larger image Brazil

These large birds have a wing span of about 1.70 metres. Both sexes have a "horn" protruding from the forehead but this is quite brittle and can break off although it grows back again.

The amount of white on the neck and the outstretched wings is variable.

Horned Screamer, Amazonas, July 2001 - click for larger image They are found from Colombia to Brazil and northern Argentina. Nearly always close to water, they prefer marsh and river meadows as well as the llanos of Venezuela.

When not grazing, they often perch on low bushes and will fly up to tall trees when alarmed.

Horned Screamer, ParĂ¡, February 2002 - click for larger image There is an excellent page on this species at Piland, Natalia. 2010. Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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