Assertion: anhinga | /r/HasProperty | water turkey
Facets:
value: for broad tail
type: CAUSE
value: for its swimming habits
type: CAUSE
value: colloquially
type: MANNER
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: For unrelated but similar birds, see bustard (Australian turkey), megapode (brush turkey), and snakebird (water turkey).
text: Anhinga are water birds, but they lack the ability to keep their feathers dry.
text: "ANHINGA; snakebird; WATER TURKEY.
text: The anhinga is also called water turkey, snake bird, or darter.
text: The anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) is sometimes called a water turkey, from the shape of its tail when the feathers are fully spread for drying.
text: The anhinga, also known as the snake bird or water turkey, can be found here, as well as the roseate spoonbill, the white ibis, the purple gallinule, several heron species, and many shorebird species.
text: The anhinga is also called the water turkey and snake bird, since it swims almost totally submerged with only its snaky-looking long neck and head above water.
text: The Anhinga is known as a water-turkey for its swimming habits and broad tail.
text: Mostly a bird of the swamps, the anhinga is known as the water turkey for its swimming habits and broad tail, and also as the snake bird for its habit of swimming with just its long head and neck sticking out of the water, very similar to a cormorant.
text: As do cormorants when drying their feathers, the anhinga will stand with wings spread and feathers fanned open in a semicircular shape, resembling a male meleagrine, which led to the anhinga being referred to colloquially as the “water turkey.
text: For unrelated but similar birds, see bustard (Australian turkey), megapode (brush turkey), and snakebird (water turkey).
text: For unrelated but similar birds, see bustard (Australian turkey), megapode (brush turkey), and snakebird (water turkey).