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The American Darter (Anhinga anhinga) is a comparatively common bird species of the order Suliformes. The species comes in two subspecies on the American double continent from the southeast of the USA via Central America and Amazonia to the north of Argentina. The greatest similarity is to the cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae).
The American Darter (Anhinga anhinga) is a bird that is an authority on the local Suliformes and the family of darter.
The Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, American Darter, or Water Turkey, is a water bird of the warm parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird.
It is a cormorant-like bird with an average body length of 85 cm (33 in), a wingspan of 117 cm (46 in), and a mass of up to 1.35 kg (3.0 lb). It is a dark-plumaged piscivore with a very long neck, and often swims with only the neck above water. When swimming in this style the name Snakebird is apparent, since only the colored neck appears above water the bird looks like a snake ready to strike. They do not have external nares (nostrils) and breathe solely through their epiglottis.
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Christiane W. Schulze was born in Dortmund / Germany
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