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Greater Ani


Greater Ani
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Copyright: Marcio Negrao (mnegrao) Silver Note Writer [C: 6 W: 0 N: 24] (665)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-04
Categories: Birds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-28 9:25
Viewed: 514
Points: 4
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Family: Cuculidae Species: Crotophaga major
Length: 46 cm
Present local in all Brazil and also of Panama to Argentina. Common in forests of gallery, edges of rivers and lakes, quagmires and manguezais. It generally lives distant of habitations human beings, in bandos of 3 the 4 couples. To the times it can be grouped in well bigger bandos, with sets of ten of individuals. The example of the anu-black color, is fed of insects, fishes in flat waters and eats fruits and seeds.

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  • demeve Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 515 W: 8 N: 1134] (4174)
  • [2007-04-28 12:30]

Hola Marcio, linda captura do Anu, o POV esta excelente..parabens.

Hi Marcio,
This is Crotophaga ani (Smooth-billed Ani). The Greater Ani (Crotophaga major) can be distinguished by this bird by having a generally blue-black color, rather than black; by having a white iris, rather than dark brown; and by having the terminal part of the upper mandible not involved with the casque that is limited to about the proximal two-thirds of the upper mandible. Here we can see that the casque involves the whole mandible, and also that it is not longitudinally grooved (so we can tell it apart from sulcirostris).

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