Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Sungrebe
Heliornis fulica
- tidak umum
- 40 km/h
- Risiko rendah
The male carries chicks in skin pouches under each wing, even in flight.
- Populasi
- 500,000-4,999,999 mature individuals, decreasing
- Habitat
- Quiet, heavily vegetated freshwater habitats: forest streams and rivers, ponds, and lakes with thick overhanging vegetation
- Fakta menarik
- Male Sungrebes have unique skin pouches (wing pockets) under their wings in which they carry their newly hatched, helpless chicks in flight until the young can swim and feed independently, earning the species the nickname "Marsupial Bird."
- Sebaran
- Lowland Neotropics from northeastern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean into South America, south to central Ecuador, the Amazon/Orinoco basins, the Pantanal, and southern Brazil/northern Argentina (a breeding range of roughly 16,700,000 km² across 19 countries)
- Makanan
- Carnivorous: snails, aquatic and terrestrial arthropods (insects, crustaceans), small fish, frogs, and lizards; supplemented occasionally with seeds and fruit
- Ukuran
- 0,285 m
- Masa hidup
- 4,5 tahun
