Horned Screamer Anhima cornuta Scientific name definitions

María A. García-Amado, Peter Pyle, and Natalia Piland
Version: 2.0 — Published March 22, 2024

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Recommended Citation

García-Amado, M. A., P. Pyle, and N. Piland (2024). Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg and N. C. García, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.horscr1.02
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