Northern screamer, Uraba, Colombia

Too far away, but sharing it anyway for the species value. This bird is near endemic to Colombia. Strangely, I've never made the connection to a Northern screamer despite being familiar with the Southern Screamer, which is a popular bird in zoos the world over. For the sake of completeness, there's also a Horned Screamer, occurring in the east of Colombia.

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Christine Young

Lion

That is a cool looking bird! I'm totally not nit-picking, but did you mean "endemic to Columbia and near threatened" or did you mean to write "near endemic"? Posted 7 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  No worries, they are both near endemic and near threatened. The near threatened text isn't from me, it's from Wikipedia. Near-endemic comes from my Colombia's birds book. Countries usually take a lot of pride in endemic birds. The somewhat frustrating part for Colombians is that a lot of their birds largely occur only in Colombia, yet also in just a tiny range in a neighboring country, because of the Andes basically. Hence they use near-endemic a lot :) Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Interesting, thanks for explaining :) Posted 7 years ago

The Northern screamer

The northern screamer , also known as the black-necked screamer, is a large species of bird in the small family Anhimidae, the screamers. It is a resident breeder in northern Colombia, in Chocó, Antioquia, Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, Magdalena, Santander, and Cesar Departments and northwestern Venezuela, in Zulia, Mérida, and Trujillo States. On average, they are 88.9 cm long and weigh about 3.9 kg.

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Species identified by Ferdy Christant