‘Birds’

Wood Duck

  

Wood Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni) - Species of birds of the family Anatidae, living in Australia. Wood duck also called wood duck and duck Zheltonogov Eaton, in honor of its discoverer, British naturalist Thomas Campbell Eaton.

  

  

Do wood ducks predominantly brown color, dorsal plumage olive-brown, chest and neck - light gray, and red with black horizontal stripes sides.

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Большеноги или сорные куры

Bolshenogi, or weed chickens ( Megapodiidae) - Family of birds gallinaceous, living on the islands north of Australia.

Bolshenogi, Unlike most birds,not hatch their eggs, and bury them in the ground or in humus, where they develop due to solar heat or heat, produced when decaying plants. , beak inside his soft skin, which serves as a "thermometer". With this "thermometer" male monitors the temperature inside the "incubator" and depending on the temperature changes or he unearths, asleep or eggs.

After the chicks hatch, They crawl out from under the sand and relax for a while, but after a couple of hours, they can already run, and a day - fly.

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Polulapchaty Goose

Polulapchaty Goose ( Anseranas semipalmata) - The only species of the family unit waterfowl, living in the north-eastern coastal regions of Australia and Tasmania. Halo polulapchatogo goose habitat – river valleys and flood plains, where they live in colonies, often in the thousands of individuals. In food polulapchatyh geese are all sorts of water plants.

Sometimes polulapchatogo goose classified as a separate genus in the family Anatidae, but more likely, polulapchaty goose that has more to do with palamedeyami, as he shares with them some of the properties. These properties include relatively long legs, long neck and a very reduced flipper.

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