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Many use their feet to uncover food in leaf litter. The hoatzin feeds on leaves and
fruit, especially those of arums (Araceae), rarely descending to the ground but
occasionally entering the water to take small crabs or fish. Courtship and mating.
Many use their feet to uncover food in leaf litter. The hoatzin feeds on leaves and
fruit, especially those of arums (Araceae), rarely descending to the ground but
occasionally entering the water to take small crabs or fish. Courtship and mating.
Page 52
The kagu builds a nest of sticks and leaves in a depression in the ground.
Bustards scarcely have a nest at all, the eggs being laid on bare ground,
sometimes beneath a bush or clump of grass for concealment. Finfoots and the
sun bittern ...
The kagu builds a nest of sticks and leaves in a depression in the ground.
Bustards scarcely have a nest at all, the eggs being laid on bare ground,
sometimes beneath a bush or clump of grass for concealment. Finfoots and the
sun bittern ...
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Rollers spend more time perched, but they too are graceful in flight and capture
much of their food by hawking or by darting down to the ground. Members of both
groups are often seen aloft, apparently not feeding but flying for diversion.
Rollers spend more time perched, but they too are graceful in flight and capture
much of their food by hawking or by darting down to the ground. Members of both
groups are often seen aloft, apparently not feeding but flying for diversion.
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