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The anhinga (/ æ n ˈ h ɪ ŋ ɡ ə /; Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from a'ñinga in the Brazilian Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird". [ 3 ]
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).
The Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water.
A lone Anhinga, also known as the Devil Bird, found along the Black Creek in Churchville Tuesday Dec. 15, 2020. The 'Devil Bird' name comes from the Tupi Indian language of Brazil, and translates ...
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.
The African darter is found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of water occur; overall the species remains widespread and common. [1]The only non-African subspecies, the Levant darter (Anhinga rufa chantrei), occurred at Lake Amik (Amik Gölü) in south-central Turkey, in the Hula Valley lake and marshes in northern Israel and in the Mesopotamian Marshes of the lower Euphrates ...
the American Ornithological Society announced that it will change all English bird names currently named after people within its jurisdiction.
The name Giganhinga is a combination of the Greek "gigas" (γίγας) meaning giant and the name Anhinga, which is the genus including all modern darter species (and itself derives from the Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird"). The species name "kiyuensis" is based on the beach of Kiyü, a balneario in southern Uruguay on the ...