### animal | vertebrate | bird | heron | egret:

Snowy egret
- brilliant white, medium sized herons that have black legs and yellow-feet
  - egrets
* breed once a year.
* eat fish, crabs, amphibians, and other insects.
* have black beaks
  - long necks, black legs, and a thin black bill
* is an egret
* stand in brackish pools, silently regal, waiting for prey.

White egret
* glide over the valley's pasture to their nests.
* pose silently or flap lazily overhead.

Great blue heron
* adapt to habitats
  - wetland habitats
* feed on insects.
* have black color
  - fish techniques
  - neck vertebrae

Great heron
* Most great herons adapt to habitats
* Most great herons have feathers
  - vertebrae
  - nest in colonies
* Some great herons live in aquatic habitats
  - neck vertebrae
* live for years.
* make croaks.

Green heron
* Most green herons eat fish.
* are one of the few species of animal known to use tools
  - seasonally monogamous
* know how to use bait to fish.
* stretch necks.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | heron:

Grey heron
* Most grey herons have necks
  - plumages
  - similar plumages
* are about the same size as great blue herons , which are found in North America.
* breed once a year.
* can be aggressive with each other in certain situations.
* communicate mostly by using body language and calls.
* eat many kinds of animals, but they mostly eat fish.
  - the ability to live in cities where habitats and nesting space are available
* limit the number of fish in the rivers and other water bodies where they hunt.
* live near shallow bodies of water, where they find food.

Night heron
* are herons.
* have heavy bodies and short, thick necks.
* like to nest low, often on the ground.
* receive full adult plumage in the third year.

### animal | vertebrate | bird:

Hoatzin
* are chiefly arboreal, nesting on low trees or shrubs, and feeding on leaves and fruit.
* colourful bird, with frizzy crest and long tail.
* has a long neck, small head with reddish-brown crest, and blue facial skin with red eyes
  - tail composed of ten, loosely attached feathers
  - an unpleasant odour, due to aromatic compounds included in their vegetal food
  - bronze olive upperparts, with fine buff streaks on dark hind neck, nape and mantle
  - typical foot with three toes forwards and one backwards
* is national bird of Guyana
  - vulnerable to nest predation

### animal | vertebrate | bird | hoatzin:

Young hoatzin
* have hooks on their wings, reminiscent of prehistoric creatures
  - similar to the prehistoric Archaeopteryx
* lose their claws once they reach maturity
  - wing-claws as they attain adulthood

### animal | vertebrate | bird:

Hornbill
* Most hornbills are black and white, sometimes varied with chestnut or gray
  - fruit eaters
  - have black, white or gray plumage but many have strikingly colourful bills
* are a speciality
  - actually common
  - arboreal and terrestrial
  - birds
  - omnivorous birds
  - particularly common here during the fruiting season
  - sensitive to habitat destruction, and are large in size and feed mainly on fruits
* feed chiefly on the ground, their food consisting of insects, small mammals, and reptiles.
* have very peculiar nesting habits.
* make their nests in holes in trees.
* mate for life, and nest in hollow tree cavities, relying totally on natural cavities.
* use their big bills to open the tough husks of nuts and to handle large fruit.
+ Rhinoceros Hornbill: Coraciiformes
  * The 'Rhinoceros Hornbill' is a species of bird living in parts of Malaya and Thailand. It usually wanders here and there in the forest, where it lives, in search of fruits and nuts to eat. Hornbills use their big bills to open the tough husks of nuts and to handle large fruit.