Hoatzin
Opisthocomus hoazin
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Opisthocomus hoazin
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Opisthocomiformes
- Family
- Opisthocomidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- South America
- Habitat
- Wetlands, Rainforest
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Chicks have two claws on each wing that let them clamber through branches.
- Fermenting leaves in its crop give it a manure-like smell, earning it the nickname stinkbird.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q188660 · All animals · All entries