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Eudocimus ruber

Photo by rka
Photo taken: Brickfield, Trinidad.

[edit] Identification

56-61 cm. Scarlet, except for black wing-tips, long curved bill. A juvenile is grey/white in colour; as it grows, the ingestion of red crabs gradually produces the scarlet plumage.

[edit] Distribution

South America and Trinidad and Tobago.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Tropical forests.

[edit] Behaviour

Both sexes build the nest of loose sticks in trees and 2-4 dull green, brown streaked eggs are laid, and are incubated for 23 days.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes crustaceans and similar small marine animals.

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