Snakebird

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Anhinga around 7 p.m. last night by the pond at Indian RiverSide Park.

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The anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas.

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The word anhinga comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird.

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There are four species in in the Anhingidae family of water birds, distributed worldwide mainly in warm places. They are in the order Suliformes, along with their cousins the boobies, gannets, frigatebirds, cormorants and shags.

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