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Adult Southern Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) with its black cap set against a white neck and orange face
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Lesser Kiskadee (Philohydor lictor) standing on a Water Hyacinth, the floating plant of the swamp
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Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) with its dagger-like bill designed to grab fish out of water
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Male Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) with its typical rufous breast and dark green sides
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Adult Black-capped Donacobius (Donacobius atricapilla) with staring yellow eye and dark brown upperparts
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Adult Large-billed Terns (Phaetusa simplex) on the sandy shoreline with one of them deploying its massive wings
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The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) is a very colourful waterbird with long legs and elongated toes
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Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) feeding voraciously on a Caiman carcass by tearing bits off the soft belly
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At the crack of dawn a dead Caiman floating belly up provides an unexpected breakfast for this Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
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Adult Great Black Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) with its black plumage and yellowish hooked bill
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Pair of Black-collared Hawks (Busarellus nigricollis) perched quietly near water waiting to snatch fish
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Greater Yellow-headed Vulture circling high in the air without flapping its wings as it uses thermals to maintain altitude
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Female Anhinga snakebird (Anhinga anhinga) spreading out its wings to dry its plumage in the sun
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The Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) can hardly fly after a dive in the water and has to dry itself first as its plumage is not waterproof
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Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) flapping its wings, trying to gain lift for take-off
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Adult Rufescent Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) with its bright rufous head and neck and yellowish bill
