Hoatzin

Opisthocomus hoazin

(L 24-27" Wt 1.8 lb)

Distinct with own family name...claws
on wing digits of chicks...clumsy, noisy
flyers crashing through vegetation.

Machu Huasi
Oxbow Lake

22Sept2011

Have been called
flying cows.

David Edwards,

XC27898