📚 noun • entry_id 51865
hoatzin
/ˈwætsɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chenchena • guacharaca de agua • hoacín • hoatzín • pava hedionda • shansho
A bird of the species Opisthocomus hoazin of the order Opisthocomiformes, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.
Hoatzins are large birds — at about twenty-six inches from head to tail, they are much larger than Archaeopteryx — with a yellowish chest, brown striped back, and a long narrow tai…
The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye.
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