Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias)
Brazil
The Sunbittern is unmistakable and so unique that it is placed in its own family.
Sunbittern
Species Information
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Upland Tropical Rain Forest,
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Sunbittern
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Sunbittern
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a graceful, stout-bodied, bitternlike bird, Eurypyga helias. It is named for its wing markings, an orange-chestnut shield set in an orange-buff circle, which looks like a setting sun.
Secondly, Sunbitterns belong to a monotypic family, Eurypygidae. There is no other bird even remotely like them but they are classed in the order Gruiformes, along with rails and cranes.
Sunbittern
A long-billed bird, the sunbittern has a thin neck and patterned feathers. When threatened, it will spread its wings to display numerous eyespots. With its tail lifted as well, its feathers form a semicircle.
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Sunbitterns are not social birds, so they are often difficult to locate in the wild.
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Sunbitterns are relatively quiet, but they are able to make a mechanical rattling sound.
SUNBITTERN (Eurypygidae): Eurypygidae Sunbittern
SUNGREBE: Heliornithidae Sungrebe/Finfoots
SURFBIRDS (Shorebirds - Aphriza virgata) ...
Sunbittern Eurypyga helias Found: tropical Americas
Photographed by: 1 - 4) Dick Daniels and Sandy Cole at the North Carolina Zoo 5, 6) Dick at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo ...
: Sunbitterns have a diverse diet that includes vertebrates such as small fish, tadpoles, and frogs. Invertebrates include spiders, water beetles, dragonflies, cockroaches, snails, and crustaceans such as crab and shrimp.
Sunbittern - Eurypyga helias (P, D4)
Wattled Jacana - Jacana jacana
Collared Plover - Charadrius collaris
Large-Billed Tern - Phaetusa simplex
Yellow-Billed Tern - Sterna superciliaris
Black Skimmer - Rynchops nigra ...
GRUIFORMES
cranes, rails, bustards, trumpeters, & sunbitterns
AFRICAN CROWNED CRANE
common moorhen ...
The taxonomic order GRUIFORMES (pronounced groo-ih-FOR-meez) is composed of six bird families including the legendary cranes, the odd Sunbittern, snail-eating Limpkin, and the rails.
FAMILY TAXONOMY ...
The first and smallest, Metaves contains flamingos and grebes,alongside the hoatzin, pigeons, sand grouse, the paraphyletic Caprimulgiformes, the Apodiformes, tropic birds, mesites, sunbittern and kagu.
 See also: Bittern, Heron, Flamingo, Spoonbill, Pelican
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