A handful of bird species are known to consume plant matter, but only one is a true herbivore: the hoatzin. It's a ...

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Greaves’ original design had featured the cock of the rock, but someone pointed out that it was the national bird of New Guinea so the Canje Pheasant, also known as the hoatzin, was placed at ...

Native to South America, the hoatzin offers clues to how dinosaur arms evolved into bird wings. Unique among living birds, hoatzin nestlings have dinosaur-like claws on their wings that they use ...

Hoatzin. Image via Francesco Veronesi from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Hoatzin, also known as the ...

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However, despite their name, these spiders rarely feed on birds but prefer anthropods, amphibians, and worms. Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) with crest raised in the Amazon rainforest at Lake Sandoval, ...

These large, flightless birds have powerful, muscular legs and tough, prehistoric-looking feet with claws that can deliver a ...

Birds have run, swum and flown around Earth since the dinosaur age, and they've hunted for food and raised their fuzzy chicks for generation after generation. These feathery creatures now live on ...

In the wild, parrots squeak, squawk, whistle and trill to communicate with their flockmates. These highly social birds rely on their complex communication systems to get food and warn of potential ...