There are only three species of Screamer and they all live in Venezuela ranging to Argentina. The Screamer looks as though an owl and the flamingo and a hen were all crossbred। Yet there’s something about the Screamer that also has the charisma and personality of a bird of paradise.
The long pinkish lakes of the Screamer would indicate some kind of long legged seabird. Yet the Screamer is not a seabird. The pheasant shape of the plumage and the coloration throughout the body would seem to indicate a game bird. But the Screamer is not a game bird. The high prideful crest and graduated plumage size through to the tail would seem to suggest a peacock. But the Screamer has mostly coloring that is gradations of light or white grey and brownish grey at the most distinct.
Screamers have a set of characteristics that are unique in particular and also as a hybrid bird. The Screamer has feet that are webby, but not completely webbed. They cannot be ducks because they partially molt. Screamer young are even raised under water. Perhaps most strange of all, a Screamer can be domesticated unused as a watch pet. The Screamer as a bird defies more definition and standard avian traits than any bird by which a specialist would normally characterize a species.
If the Screamer outlives many other rarer, more beautiful, more tasty bird species, there’s a good reason for this. The flesh of the Screamer is riddled with spongy air sacs which make an extreme unpalatable texture to eat. A Screamer would seem to be a bird assembled by combining random characteristics and tested by nature in the field. Even the wings of a Screamer have spurs. This is not your ordinary bird.
The Screamer may puzzle predatory animals as well। A Screamer feeds in open marshlands and grassy areas। Perhaps other animals do not like the spongy flesh as well. Perhaps they can’t even figure out what the Screamer is. Bird watchers are thus challenged with this unusual animal.
The long pinkish lakes of the Screamer would indicate some kind of long legged seabird. Yet the Screamer is not a seabird. The pheasant shape of the plumage and the coloration throughout the body would seem to indicate a game bird. But the Screamer is not a game bird. The high prideful crest and graduated plumage size through to the tail would seem to suggest a peacock. But the Screamer has mostly coloring that is gradations of light or white grey and brownish grey at the most distinct.
Screamers have a set of characteristics that are unique in particular and also as a hybrid bird. The Screamer has feet that are webby, but not completely webbed. They cannot be ducks because they partially molt. Screamer young are even raised under water. Perhaps most strange of all, a Screamer can be domesticated unused as a watch pet. The Screamer as a bird defies more definition and standard avian traits than any bird by which a specialist would normally characterize a species.
If the Screamer outlives many other rarer, more beautiful, more tasty bird species, there’s a good reason for this. The flesh of the Screamer is riddled with spongy air sacs which make an extreme unpalatable texture to eat. A Screamer would seem to be a bird assembled by combining random characteristics and tested by nature in the field. Even the wings of a Screamer have spurs. This is not your ordinary bird.
The Screamer may puzzle predatory animals as well। A Screamer feeds in open marshlands and grassy areas। Perhaps other animals do not like the spongy flesh as well. Perhaps they can’t even figure out what the Screamer is. Bird watchers are thus challenged with this unusual animal.
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