Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Class Aves > Order Pelecaniformes > Family Threskiornithidae > Genus Eudocimus >
My image of Eudocimus albus, taken before May 2022 in Chalmette, LA, USA
FACT: These birds interbreed with their partner species so often that some scientists consider them to be two variations of the same species!
Author's Note: I love the goofy little beeps and squeaks these guys make. It sounds exactly like what you would expect from something with such a twiggy beak.
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