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Anhinga

Anhinga anhinga

Photo by James McNair
Published on Project Noah
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28.2495, -80.7417

Field Notes

Description:

A great fisherman, the Anhinga spears a fish with its whole beak, then has to work the fish off the beak, as it has no hands it uses a tree branch or some other thing to help pull it off, then swallows it whole, head first, hence the large neck lump in image #6

Habitat:

Wetlands tree stump

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