Jabiru mycteria
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Jabiru mycteria
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Size
Length: ??cm (??in), Wingspan: 2.8m (9.2ft), Weight" 8kg (17.6lbs), Height: 1.5m (5ft)
Field Marks
The beak, up to 30 cm (1 ft) long, is black and broad, slightly upturned, ending in a sharp point. The plumage is mostly white, but the head and upper neck are featherless and black, with a featherless red stretchable pouch at the base. The sexes are similar, although the female is usually smaller than the male.
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Feeding & Behavior
Eats fish, mollusks, and amphibians and occasionally reptiles, small mammals, fresh carrion and dead fish. While it is an ungainly bird on the ground, the Jabiru is a powerful and graceful flier.
Habitat & Nesting
The Jabiru lives in large groups near rivers and ponds. The nest of twigs is built by both parents around August–September (in the southern hemisphere) on tall trees, and enlarged at each succeeding season growing to several meters in diameter. Half a dozen nests may be built in close proximity, sometimes among nests of herons and other birds. The parents take turns incubating the clutch of 2 to 5 white eggs
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Range
Found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay.
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