Where it lives: Amazon and Orinoco river basins in South America What it eats: Leaves, fruits and flowers Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds.

The birding world is buzzing after a biologists confirmed the presence of a South American bird ... "It's beyond weird," said Keith Laakonen, life-long bird lover and director of Audubon's ...

She has covered weird animal behavior ... Several dead sea lions have been found across South America, having died of H1N1 bird flu.... Stock image of a dead sea lion on the beach at Border ...

For the past 12 weekends, Sanchez has been chasing birds and ... and any weird happenings in Texas. She previously covered community news and breaking news at the Austin American-Statesman for ...

These words apply with much greater force to the birds of South America, the species being much more numerous and less well known than in the northern portion of the continent; while the true ...

The birds described, although primarily sea birds of South America, are ... and also in the air above them, is so strange and mysterious that “the mind may readily picture a most animated ...

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born ... Hoatzin have some pretty weird traits, with mohican crests, blue facial skin, red ...