They stalk the animals by using the stratagem of a cap made of the skin of a leche’s or poku’s head, having the horns still attached, and another made so as to represent the upper white part of the crane called jabiru (‘Mycteru Senegalensis’), with its long neck and beak above. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
We saw boat-billed herons and a jabiru that made the wood storks it stood next too look like crows. From Wordnik.com. [Belize Navidad] Reference
Also, the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), the roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), the anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), and the jabiru (jabiru mycteria) are common. From Wordnik.com. [Coastal Venezuelan mangroves] Reference
Of particular interest is the presence of Central Americas highest procreative colony of jabiru (jabiru mycteria), a large migratory bird, particularly in the Crooked Tree sanctuary, on the countrys northern plains. From Wordnik.com. [Belizian pine forests] Reference
They include the harpy eagle Harpia harpyja, the largest raptor in South America, the savanna hawk Buteogallus meridionalis, the jabiru jabiru mycteria, a large water bird; and the great tinamou, Tinamus major a large land bird. From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
Among the bird species the following are the commonest: military macaw Ara militaris (VU), rufescent tinamu Crypturellus cinnamomeus, spot‑bellied bobwhite Colinus leucopogon, great curassow Crax rubra, crested guan Penelope purpurascens, blue‑winged teal Anas discors, roseate spoonbill Ajaia ajaja, thick knee Burhinus bistriatus, jabiru jabiru mycteria (VU), ibis Eudocimus albus and laughing falcon Herpetotheres cachinans. From Wordnik.com. [Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica] Reference
Native companions ( 'Crus Australalasinus') and the more rare jabiru. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference
But the conspicuous and attractive bird was the stately jabiru stork. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
One day we found the nest of a jabiru in a mighty fig-tree, on the edge of a patch of jungle. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The most notable dinner guests were the great jabiru storks; the stately creatures dotted the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
This was the jabiru, a species which is fast disappearing, the gigantic crane of the English colonies. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through which you have just passed. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
The writing has been on the wall for a while for SIMPLE. arc: #jabiru is a horribly broken! xmpp client for. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Twisted]
A great jabiru stork let us ride by him a hundred and fifty yards off without thinking it worth while to take flight. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Here and there on the sand-bars we saw huge jabiru storks, and once a flock of white wood-ibis among the trees on the bank. From Wordnik.com. [II. Up the Paraguay] Reference
Here and there on the sand - bars we saw huge jabiru storks, and once a flock of white wood-ibis among the trees on the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
He did so, whereupon one young jabiru hastily opened its wings in the desired fashion, at the same time seizing the stick in its bill!. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
In many catalogues, the word "albatross" stands for the jabiru, a nearly-exterminated species of giant stork, inhabiting South America. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
I killed a wood-ibis on the wing with the handy little Springfield, and then lost all the credit I had thus gained by a series of inexcusable misses, at long range, before I finally killed a jabiru. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The huge jabiru storks, stalking through the water with stately dignity, sometimes refused to fly until we were only a hundred yards off; one of them flew over our heads at a distance of thirty or forty yards. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The beautiful jabiru, or gigantic crane, is equally at home in some lonely waterhole in the far west and at the head of a coast swamp; so, too, the GRUS AUSTRALIS, or native companion, and the quaint and rich-plumaged ibis. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
It would have been as silent as midnight, and all as still and unmoved as a monument, had not the jabiru in the marsh and a few vultures soaring over the mountain's top shown that it was not quite deserted by animated nature. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
Birds more specific to mangrove communities include black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), mangrove warbler (Dendroica petechia), great egret (Egretta albus), snowy egret (Egretta thula), jabiru (jabiru mycteria), wood stork (Mycteria americana), yellow-crowned night heron (Nycticorax violaceus), and Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrorax olivaceus) just to name a few. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Honduras mangroves] Reference
Birds are the most numerous fauna in the ecoregion with lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus), ocellated turkey (Agriocharis ocellata), white-crowned pigeon (Columba leucocephala), black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), clapper rail (Rallus longirostris) cormarant (Phalacrocorax spp.), roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), and jabiru (jabiru mycteria) listed as a sampling. From Wordnik.com. [Mayan Corridor mangroves] Reference
Kermit shot a jabiru with the. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Kermit shot a jabiru with the Lüger automatic. From Wordnik.com. [III. A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary] Reference
Characteristic species of this mangrove ecoregion include birds such as the keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), Townsend’s solitaire (Myadestes towsendi), bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum), tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor), reddish egret (Egretta rugescens), jabiru (jabiru mycteria), wood stork (Mycteria americana), swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus), zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonatus), amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona), prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea). From Wordnik.com. [Alvarado mangroves] Reference
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