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  Anhimidae - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Anhimidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Any South American marsh-dwelling bird of the family Anhimidae, order Anseriformes; there are only three species, all in the genus Anhima.
They are about 80 cm/30 in long, with short curved beaks, long toes, dark plumage, spurs on the fronts of the wings, and a crest or horn on the head.
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 screamer - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
screamer common name for gregarious, aquatic birds comprising three species in the family Anhimidae.
Although they are related to the ducks and geese, they do not resemble them in outward appearance.
Screamers are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Anseriformes, family Anhimidae.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-screamer.html   (407 words)

  
 Birds
Their nest is usually a floating mass of decaying vegetable matter.
The members comprise of two very different birds the screamers (Anhimidae) which are large marsh birds (70-90 cm) and the more aquatic ducks (Anatidae) which range in size from 29-152 cm.
The members of the Anhimidae is confined to the warmer parts of South America and the members of Anatidae have a world wide distribution.
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 Galapagos NET - private bus transport, Ecuador exclusive land tour destination services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is most difficult being marshy especially between the months of December to May, but it has a very particular interest since in the lagoon an aquatic bird of the same name exists (Canclón).
This bird is as great as a duck and belongs to the family Anhimidae.
The Canclón only has three species in Centro and South America, one of which it's in Churute: 'Anhimidae Cornuta' and is in extinction danger (150 to 180 individuals).
www.galapagosnet.com /html/churute.html   (1021 words)

  
 Anseriformes - Bvio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The order '''Anseriformes''' contains about 150 species of bird in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie Goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
The Anseriformes and the Galliformes (pheasants etc) are ancestral to neognathous birds, and should follow ratites and tinamous in bird classification systems.
* '''ORDER ANSERIFORMES''' ** Family Anhimidae *** Screamers, 6 species ** Family Anseranatidae ***Magpie Goose ** Family Anatidae *** Subfamily Dendrocygninae: 10 species of whistling duck.
bvio.com /Bvio/index.php/Anseriformes   (334 words)

  
 Anhimidae - Wikispecies
Chauna torquata (crested screamer), a species of familia Anhimidae.
For more Multimedia, look at Anhimidae on Wikimedia Commons.
This page was last modified 02:57, 8 December 2006.
species.wikimedia.org /wiki/Anhimidae   (35 words)

  
 Anhimidae - French-English Dictionary WordReference.com
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 Anhimidae - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The family Anhimidae contains three South American waterfowl known as the "Screamers." They were originally thought to be relatives of the rails, but recent genomic testing now suggests that they are close relatives of the Australian magpie-geese.
You can help the EvoWiki by expanding it into a full article.
This page was last modified 16:05, 1 May 2006.
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 Anhimidae - definition of Anhimidae by the grokitbetter visual dictionary
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