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Chauna
''Chauna'' is a genus of birds in the screamer family. Its two members are found in wetlands of South America. Description They are large, bulky birds, with a small downy head, long legs and large feet which are only partially webbed. They have large spurs on their wings which are used in fights over mates and territorial disputes. Conservation The southern screamer is overall fairly common and sometimes considered a pest as it raids crops and competes with farm birds for food. In contrast, the northern screamer is relatively rare and therefore considered near threatened A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify fo .... Species References * {{Taxonbar, from=Q2662452 Anhimidae Bird genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Screamer
The southern screamer (''Chauna torquata'') is a species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 24 July 2022. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved July 24, 2022 Taxonomy and systematics The southern screamer shares genus ''Chauna'' with the northern screamer (''C. chavaria''). One other species, the horned screamer (''Anhima cornuta'') is also in family Anhimidae. The southern screamer is monotypic. Description The southern screamer is one of the largest birds of southern South America at long and weighing about . Their flat wing measures , their tail , and their culmen . They are stout bodied with a disproportionately small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauna Torquata
The southern screamer (''Chauna torquata'') is a species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 24 July 2022. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved July 24, 2022 Taxonomy and systematics The southern screamer shares genus ''Chauna'' with the northern screamer (''C. chavaria''). One other species, the horned screamer (''Anhima cornuta'') is also in family Anhimidae. The southern screamer is monotypic. Description The southern screamer is one of the largest birds of southern South America at long and weighing about . Their flat wing measures , their tail , and their culmen . They are stout bodied with a disproportionately small h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screamer
The screamers are three South American bird species placed in Family (biology), family Anhimidae. They were thought to be related to the Galliformes because of similar beak, bills, but are more closely related to ducks (family Anatidae),Todd, F. (1991) and most closely related to the magpie goose. The clade is exceptional within the living birds in lacking uncinate processes of ribs. The three species are: The horned screamer (''Anhima cornuta''); the southern screamer or crested screamer (''Chauna torquata''); and the northern screamer or black-necked screamer (''Chauna chavaria''). Systematics and evolution Screamers have a poor fossil record. A putative Eocene specimen is known from Wyoming, while the more modern ''Chaunoides antiquus'' is known from the late Oligocene to early Miocene in Brazil. Anhimids are most similar to Presbyornithidae, presbyornithids, with which they form a clade to the exclusion of the rest of Anseriformes. Given the presence of lamelae in the otherw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Screamer
The northern screamer (''Chauna chavaria'') is a Near Threatened species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Taxonomy and systematics The northern screamer shares genus ''Chauna'' with the southern screamer (''C. torquata''). One other species, the horned screamer (''Anhima cornuta'') is also in family Anhimidae. The northern screamer is monotypic. Description The northern screamer is long. They are stout bodied with a disproportionately small head and a gray bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a gray crown with a long crest, a mostly white face, a wide black band around the neck, and a dark gray body, wings, and tail. Their wing has two sharp spurs at its manus. They have bare red skin around their brown eye and reddish orange legs and feet. Juveniles are similar to adults but drabber.Carboneras, C., P. F. D. Boesman, G. M. Kirwan, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Northern Screamer (''Chauna chavar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauna Chavaria
The northern screamer (''Chauna chavaria'') is a Near Threatened species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Taxonomy and systematics The northern screamer shares genus ''Chauna'' with the southern screamer (''C. torquata''). One other species, the horned screamer (''Anhima cornuta'') is also in family Anhimidae. The northern screamer is monotypic. Description The northern screamer is long. They are stout bodied with a disproportionately small head and a gray bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a gray crown with a long crest, a mostly white face, a wide black band around the neck, and a dark gray body, wings, and tail. Their wing has two sharp spurs at its manus. They have bare red skin around their brown eye and reddish orange legs and feet. Juveniles are similar to adults but drabber.Carboneras, C., P. F. D. Boesman, G. M. Kirwan, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Northern Screamer (''Chauna chavar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trujillo (state)
Trujillo State ( es, link=no, Estado Trujillo, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Its capital is Trujillo but the largest city is Valera. The state is divided into 20 municipalities and 93 parishes. Trujillo State covers a total surface area of and, has a 2011 census population of 686,367. History Spanish colonization The city of Trujillo was founded in 1557 by the conquistador and captain Diego García de Paredes, in honor of his homonymous and native town located in Extremadura, Spain. Hostility from the Kuikas Indians and natural calamities forced changes in settlement, but on 27 October 1570 the town was finally located under the temporary name of Trujillo de Nuestra Señora de la Paz. It is also known as the Portable City because of its many foundations due to the fierce resistance of the indigenous people who inhabited that territory when defending their lands. On 31 December 1676, Maracaibo (separated from the province of Venezuela) and Mérida-La Grita are un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mérida (state)
The State of Mérida commonly known simply as Mérida ( es, Estado Bolivariano de Mérida, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Mérida, Mérida, Mérida, in the Libertador Municipality, Mérida, Libertador Municipality. Located in the Western Andean Region, Venezuela, Andean Region, Mérida State covers a total surface area of , making it the fifteenth-largest in Venezuela. In 2011, had a census population of 828,592, the fourteenth most populous. History Pre-Colonial According to recent studies in archaeology, history and anthropology, The Andean Region, Venezuela, Andean region seems to have been inhabited since very remote times (perhaps several thousand years) by unknown groups that have left very few traces. Then, around our era, another ethnic group of great cultural importance arrives in the region, perhaps of Chibcha origin, since they share with these their mythology, funeral and settlement patterns, housing construction, agricultural techniqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulia State
Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu language, Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the States of Venezuela, 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It is also one of the few states (if not the only one) in Venezuela in which voseo (the use of ''vos'' as a second person singular pronoun) is widespread. The state is coterminous with the eponymous Regions of Venezuela, region of Zulian Region, Venezuela, Zulia. Zulia State is in northwestern Venezuela, bordering Lake Maracaibo, the largest body of water of its kind in Latin America. Its basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere. Zulia is economically important to the country for its oil and mineral exploitation, but it is also one of the major agricultural areas of Venezuela, highlighting the region's contribution in areas such as livestock, bananas, fruits, meat, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Chocó
Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, for example: **Departments of Colombia, a grouping of municipalities **Departments of France, administrative divisions three levels below the national government **Departments of Honduras **Departments of Peru, name given to the subdivisions of Peru until 2002 **Departments of Uruguay *Department (United States Army), corps areas of the U.S. Army prior to World War I *Fire department, a public or private organization that provides emergency firefighting and rescue services *Ministry (government department), a specialized division of a government *Police department, a body empowered by the state to enforce the law *Ship's company#Command structure, Department (naval) administrative/functional sub-unit of a ship's company. Other uses *Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Department
Caesar Department ( es, Departamento del Cesar, links=no) or simply Caesar () is a department of Colombia located in the north of the country in the Caribbean region, bordering to the north with the Department of La Guajira, to the west with the Department of Magdalene and Department of Bolivar, to the south with Department of Santander, to the east with the Department of North Santander, and further to the east with the country of Venezuela (Zulia State). The department capital city is Valledupar. The region was first inhabited by indigenous peoples known as Euparis in the Valley of Upar and Guatapuris in the Valley of the Caesar river, among these were the Orejones pertaining to the Toupeh, Acanayutos pertaining to the Motilon and Alcoholades pertaining to the Chimila. The first European to explore the area was Spanish Captain Peter Vadillo, but German Ambrose Alfinger savagely conquered the region in 1532. From 1996–2006 paramilitary groups committed gross human right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
