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The female anhinga is similar to the male except for its pale gray-buff [17] or light brown [18] head, neck, and upper chest. The lower chest or breast is a chestnut color, and the back is browner than the male's. [19] Skeleton, showing the unusual eighth cervical vertebra. The hatchling starts bald but gains tan down within a few days of hatching.
Anhingidae Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) : Giganhinga kiyuensis: Scientific classification; Domain: Eukaryota: Kingdom: Animalia: Phylum: Chordata: Class: Aves: Order ...
Female anhinga (A. anhinga) taking off Australasian darter drying its wings. Anhingidae are large birds with sexually dimorphic plumage.They measure about 80 to 100 cm (2.6 to 3.3 ft) in length, with a wingspan around 120 cm (3.9 ft), and weigh some 1,050 to 1,350 grams (37 to 48 oz).
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Giganhinga is a genus of giant darter that lived during the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene in what is now Uruguay and Argentina.The largest species of anhinga known to science, estimates suggest it may have weighed around 17.7 kg (39 lb) and was likely flightless.
The Oriental darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American (Anhinga anhinga), African (Anhinga rufa, with vulsini of Madagascar as a subspecies), and Australasian (Anhinga novaehollandiae) darters. These were for sometime treated as subspecies of Anhinga melanogaster. [13]
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The Australasian darter or Australian darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) is a species of bird in the darter family, Anhingidae. It is found in Australia , Indonesia , and Papua New Guinea . It weighs around 2.6 kg and spans 86–94 cm (34–37 in) in length.