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Hoatzin
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(wätsn´) [Aztec], common name for a peculiar marsh bird, Opisthocomus hoatzin. The hoatzin is a slender bird with a brownish plumage spotted with white above and reddish-yellow to rust below.
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Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)
Brazil
A prehistoric looking bird with a punk haircut, there is considerable debate about which birds are most closely related to the Hoatzin.
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Hoatzins
Opisthocomidae
†Hoazinoides (Late Miocene)
†Hoatzi - may be same as Foro ...
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The Hoatzin feed in the early morning and evening for about 4 hours a day. All adults hlep take care of eggs and raise the young, feeding them on a mash of half digested leaves.
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The first and smaller one, Metaves, contains flamingos and grebes, alongside the hoatzin, pigeons, sandgrouse, the Caprimulgiformes, the Apodiformes, tropicbirds, mesites, sunbittern and kagu.
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del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. and Sargatal, J. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 1996.
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On another trip we went by boat to lake where there were Hoatzin , Ladder-backed Nightjars and Rufous-headed Woodpecker. Monkey Island in the middle of the river is home to 3 species of released monkeys that are being fed by researchers.
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The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos (family Musophagidae, sometimes treated as a separate order, Musophagiformes). Some zoologists have also included the unique Hoatzin in the Cuculiformes, ...
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Sub-order 4. Opisthocomi.-Arboreal, with long spina externa; without basipterygoid processes. Opisthocomus hoatzin, Guiana, Venezuela and Amazon countries.
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 See also: Cuckoo, Tinamou, Ratite, Sandgrouse, Grebe
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