Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein, 1819)

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Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein, 1819)

Record. Table 3.

The Jabiru was easily recognized, as it is the tallest flying bird in Brazil and South America. The single adult Jabiru measured 127 cm long and the broad, black beak, with slightly upturned, sharply pointed at the end and was 32 cm long; the tarsus measured 31 cm long, and the wing chord (Wc) = 64 cm. The plumage was mostly white, the head and upper neck were black and featherless, and there was a featherless red stretchable pouch at the base of the neck ( Fig. 11).

Order Cathartiformes