Photo 11 Oct 237 notes biomedicalephemera: Coracina cephaloptera [now Cephalopterus ornatus] - the Amazonian Umbrellabird Bro’s got some wicked style. That wattle inflates when it calls, by the way. Just cause the ultra-hawk wasn’t bad enough. Amazonian umbrellabirds are the largest passerines (perching birds/”songbirds”) in the world. Aside from their distinctly woodpecker-like flight, they resemble terribly stylish crows, rather than their closer cousins, such as finches and sparrows. Bilder-Atlas zur Wissenschaftliche-Popularen Naturgeschichte der Vogel. Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, 1864.

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Coracina cephaloptera [now Cephalopterus ornatus] - the Amazonian Umbrellabird

Bro’s got some wicked style. That wattle inflates when it calls, by the way. Just cause the ultra-hawk wasn’t bad enough.

Amazonian umbrellabirds are the largest passerines (perching birds/”songbirds”) in the world. Aside from their distinctly woodpecker-like flight, they resemble terribly stylish crows, rather than their closer cousins, such as finches and sparrows.

Bilder-Atlas zur Wissenschaftliche-Popularen Naturgeschichte der Vogel. Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, 1864.

via Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils.

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