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A curious South American bird Anhima or Palamedea cornuta often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry which it defends against birds of prey It has a long slender hornlike ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing Although its beak feet and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese Anseres Called also horned screamer The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja See Chaja and Screamer...
Kingfisher
Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the family Alcedinidaelig Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by diving and seizing them with the beak others feed only upon reptiles insects etc About one hundred and fifty species are known They are found in nearly all parts of the world but are particularly abundant in the East Indies...
Latirostral
Having a broad beak...
Lunate
Crescent shaped resembling the crescent moon as a lunate leaf a lunate beak a lunated cross...
Mandible
The bone or principal bone of the lower jaw the inferior maxilla also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds...
Motmot
Any one of several species of long tailed passerine birds of the genus Momotus having a strong serrated beak In most of the species the two long middle tail feathers are racket shaped at the tip when mature The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape They feed on insects reptiles and fruit and are found from Mexico to Brazil The name is derived from its note...
Neb
The nose the snout the mouth the beak of a bird a nib as of a pen...
Potamian
A river tortoise one of a group of tortoises Potamites or Trionychoidea having a soft shell webbed feet and a sharp beak See Trionyx...
Pressiroster
One of a tribe of wading birds Pressirostres including those which have a compressed beak as the plovers...
Puffin
An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica allied to the auks and having a short thick swollen beak whence the name called also bottle nose cockandy coulterneb marrot mormon pope and sea parrot...
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