Unique Birds

[raymo]

Was bored, so looked through my pics to see if anything looked interesting enough to post here; hope you like it.
The Hoatzin is the only extant example of a bird of this type, and can be found throughout the Amazon Basin. It has several unique and/or near unique
features, and an unattractive range of hoarse sounding calls. It is well worth
googling; a very strange prehistoric looking creature.
raymo

[leon]

Well raymo that is certainly a different looking creature, nice capture.

Leon

[AdamJL]

That’s cool. Takes me back to my backpacking days going through South America
These birds stink by the way (really bad!) and are terrible eating

[raymo]

Hi Leon and Adam; yes, very stinky, a food of last resort for anybody who is starving. A result of one of the weird features that I mentioned, namely a
very rare type of digestive system which is in the bird's crop, which results in the bird being front heavy, and consequently a poor flyer. It scrambles around awkwardly in the dense foliage.
raymo