Anhinga
Anhinga anhinga
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-16 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Freshwater wetland
- Range
- The Americas
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
This water bird lives in the warm swamps and slow rivers of the Americas. It lacks external nostrils and must breathe entirely through its mouth.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Suliformes
- Family
- Anhingidae
- Genus
- Anhinga
- Species
- Anhinga anhinga