Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, found in Central and South America

This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

Photograph by Erisvaldo Almeida

Kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus)

© Andrew Spencer

A sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) stretches, showing off the pattern on its wings in Costa Rica

by Paul Ellis

Kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus)

© Andrew Spencer

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Eurypyga helias by Rosa Gambóias

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) von Daniel Bauer Über Flickr: The Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) occupied rainforests near waterbodies in Central and South America from southern Mexico to central Brazil (Aves: Eurypygiformes: Eurypygidae). Heidelberg Zoological Garden

Kagu (Rhynochetos jubatus) - photo by Chris Wiley

Listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, found in Central and South America

This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

Photograph by Luis Ricardo Rojas

You are a big appreciator of birds, obviously. Are there any fairly obscure or weird birds you wish got more attention? (As in, not "weirdos trying to make them pets" attention, naturally.)

oh man there's some WACK birds out there not many people know about

Sungrebe: this bird has a pouch for its chicks in its armpits

the Tristan Thrush (same genus as your american robin) is endemic to the islands of Tristan da Cunha and predates on seabirds. they will eat albatross eggs, hunt petrel chicks, and even feed off the blood of penguins

everyone knows the dodo but not many know their cousin the Rodrigues Solitaire. the top left drawing is the only known illustration based off an eyewitness and they had bony clubs on their wings for combat. this was sadly not effective against europeans.

The Magpie Goose is not a true goose, but an early offshoot of the Anseriformes that split off before the K-Pg extinction. they have a duck-like head but their feet are only partially webbed and they graze both on land and in water

Musk Ducks are widespread in southern australia and are named for the musky odor they produce during mating season, the males also grow a large wattle. musk ducks are the only duck known to mimic human speech, there’s a musk duck named ripper that’s been filmed mimicking several times but he’s best known for saying “you bloody fool”

Eurypygiformes is an entire order of birds only represented by two living species on opposite sides of the globe and are two of my favourite birds: the Central American Sunbittern and the Kagu of New Caledonia

Oilbirds are the only flying nocturnal bird that is primarily a frugivore, they’re called oilbirds because of their fatty chicks that used to be rendered for oil and they are one of the few birds to evolve echolocation

one of worst best genre of birds is “flabby neck phallus”, off the top of my head: Marabou Stork

Long-wattled Umbrellabird

Australian Bustard (photos don’t do them justice you need to see them on video)

hope this helps

Do you think the old suggestion of a heron-eurypygiform relationship is plausible (considering they’re not too distant in current molecular phylogenies)?

I doubt it. Those same phylogenies also consistently exclude eurypygiforms from Aequornithes (and if anything, they do so even more consistently than they find eurypygiforms to be closely related to aequornitheans).

. . اكتب شي تؤجر عليه . . . . . 🍁🌺 قال رسول الله ﷺ : ستكون فتن القاعد فيها خير من القائم والقائم فيها خير من الماشي والماشي فيها خير من الساعي من تشرف لها تستشرفه ومن وجد فيها ملجأ فليعذ به 🍁🌺 . ✔⚪⚫صحيح مسلم⚫⚪✔ . . . . 🔴💥طائر سن بترين - او واق الشمس - Sunbittern🔴💥 . . . . . التصنيف العلمي المملكة : الحيوانية الأسرة في اللغات : الفقاريات الدرجة : إيفس الترتيب : Eurypygiformes الأسرة : Eurypygidae جنس : Eurypyga الأنواع : E. helias الاسم العلمي : Eurypyga helias . . تواجدها في المناطق الاستوائية في الأمريكتين و غواتيمالا إلى جنوب بيرو وتتميز هذه الطيور عند الخطر بانها تقوم بعرض اجنحتها التي تسلك نمط يشبه العينين ولكي تظهر بشكل اكبر وتخيف من حولها تضع الانثى بيضتان في على الارض و تتغذى هذه الطيور على الحشرات . . Its presence in the tropics of the Americas and Guatemala to the south of Peru and is characterized by these birds at risk as you view their wings which behave pattern similar to the eyes and to appear larger and scare from around the female lays two eggs on the ground and in these birds feed on insects . . . . . . 🍂لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God🍂 . . . . . . 🍁🌺 قال رسول الله ﷺ : إذا تواجه المسلمان بسيفهما فالقاتل والمقتول في النار قال: فقلت: أو قيل: يا رسول الله هذا القاتل فما بال المقتول قال إنه قد أراد قتل صاحبه 🍁🌺 . ✔⚪⚫صحيح مسلم⚫⚪✔ . . . . . . . 🍀قران - Quran🍀 . . . @bosaif_aldhaheri @bosaif_aldhaheri @bosaif_aldhaheri . https://www.instagram.com/p/B-WfyzMgojd/?igshid=1ko7crkvzub28

Rhynochetos jubatus by Klaus Huppertz