Southern Screamer (chauna torquata)
The Southern Screamer (also known as Crested Screamer) is notable for having an unusually small head with a pheasant-like beak on a large body with long legs. Although screamers live in the South American wetlands, they do not have webbed feet and they don’t feed in the same way as ducks or geese as their beaks are not built to filter water. Thought to be the “missing link” between wildfowl and gamebirds like pheasants and quail. Their name “screamer” is derived from their territorial call which can be heard from up to two miles away
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Keywords: chauna, crested, link, missing, screamer, southern, torquata, wetlands
