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Photo of the Day #647: Sunbittern

By laelaps on July 21, 2009.

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A sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), photographed at the Central Park Zoo.


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Nice photo of a really cool bird. Did you get to watch it displaying? Last time I went to London Zoo I watched a sunbittern displaying to an agouti of all things! I knew they could do that but it still didn't prepare me for how odd it looked!