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  • Some toucan's beaks are bigger than their bodies.

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  • Grebes, a duck- looking bird, are known to eat feathers, including their own!
  • Macaws eat clay.

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  • Jacanas,  Amazonian birds, nest in floating plants.
  • Female jacanas double-time their mates.
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  • Manakin males go through intricate dances to win mates.
  • Caciques and oropendolas nest out in the open, but usually near wasp, bee, or ant nests.
  • An Amazonian raptor hunting technique is sit on a branch and fall on the prey below.
  • A horned screamer looks very odd, like a cross between a vulture and a chicken with an antennae on it's head.