Finfoot
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bird: see sun grebe.
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Sun Grebe - common name for a tropical, mainly aquatic bird of the family Heliornithidae.
African Finfoot
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Masked finfoot (Heliopais personatus)
Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
Greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus)
Ptychadena (Ptychadena newtoni)
Okinawa rail (Gallirallus okinawae) ...
The Sungrebe is related to the Finfoots of Africa and South-East Asia. It acts much like a grebe which it replaces in forest streams and rivers with overhanging vegetation in tropical Central and South America.
SUNGREBE: Heliornithidae Sungrebe/Finfoots
SURFBIRDS (Shorebirds - Aphriza virgata)
SWALLOWS (Hirundinidae) ...
A trip over to an oxbow lake near the clay lick produced really good looks at the Sungrebe a very elusive little duck like bird which is neither a duck or a grebe, but belongs to the Finfoots or Heliornithidae.
Gruidae, cranes, cosmopolitan, allied Phororhacos, Tertiary of Argentina. Dicholophidae, cariamas, neotropical. Otididae, bustards, Old World. Rhinochetidae, kagus, New Caledonia. Eurypygidae, sun-bittern, neotropical. Heliornithidae, finfoots, ...
region has important populations of White-rumped and Slenderbilled Vultures (particularly given their rapid declines in South Asia: see G03) and several threatened birds found in forests and associated wetlands (White-winged Duck, Masked Finfoot and ...
 See also: Grebe, Swift, Woodpecker, Pigeon, Crane
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