5种怪异的鸟

5 Weird Birds

With a world full of flight takingcreatures there are bound to be some that are out of the ordinary.There are birds that are deemed beautiful by avid bird watchers,because of the way they take flight or their plumage and then there arebirds we catch and raise in captivity that can be deemed just asbeautiful. From parakeets to cockatoos and even macaws these birds areall raised in captivity and beautiful. There are also birds that can bedeemed as the weirder bunch of birds.

1. Resplendent Quetzal

This bird is found in the Mexico andwestern Panama regions. This bird is only fourteen inches long and anadded twenty five inches for the tail when they are male. They onlyweigh about seven ounces. They have what looks to be a puff ball ontheir heads and they come in a variety of colors.

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2. Helmeted Hornbill

This particular bird is found in theMalay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra region. The feathers of this birdare mainly black. The only other color feathers are white and they arelocated on the belly and tail of the bird. They generally have a bareand wrinkled throat patch that is red in the males and blue in thefemales. The head of this bird makes up for ten percent of the 5.9 to6.8 pounds of the weight.

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3. Hoopoe

This bird can be found in Afro-Eurasia.It is mostly recognized because of its distinct crown of feathers. Thislight weight bird, weighing 1.6 to 3.1 oz., has a bill that can remainopen as they are probing the ground searching for food. Its wingspan isbroad and rounded, much like the wings of a butterfly, which allows itto have one of the more stronger flight take offs than any other bird.

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4. Hoatzin

Found mainly throughout the swamps ofthe Amazon rainforest and Orinoco Delta of South America, thesepheasant sized, brown feathered birds have lighter colored underfeathers with blue faces, maroon colored eyes and spiky featherscrowning its head. These birds have a long neck with very small heads.There chicks are born with claws on two of their wing’s appendages.They have an odor to them that smells similar to manure, which givesthem their nickname of “stinkbird.”

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5. Sri Lanka Frogmouth

Living within Southwest India and SriLanka, these birds are nocturnal creatures. It lives in a densetropical forest. The color of the plumage depends on the whether it ismale or female. The females are reddish with white spots lightlyscattered throughout the body. The males are grey and have a densersplatter of white spots.

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These birds are just some of theweirder birds out in the wild. But, there are many more out there andif you are a bird watcher you may be able to spot some on the way towork. There are some birds that are considered weird because of theirfacial features or because of the way their feathers are throughouttheir bodies, but some birds are considered weird because of theircoloring, which to some bird watchers can be more beautiful than weird.

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