They occur throughout southern Central America and the Pacific coast side of South America. These birds are omnivorous, subsisting on flower nectar and small arthropods. Although ruby-topaz ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the vast plains of ancient South America, millions of years ago, a menacing shadow loomed over the grasslands. It wasn’t a dinosaur or a mammalian predator, but a colossal bird that dominated the ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...