Southern Screamer
Chauna torquata(Oken, L, 1816)
English (US) Southern Screamer
The Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Anhimidae (Screamers) in the order Anseriformes.
Range: wet lowlands of southeastern Peru to northern Argentina and southern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chauna torquata
- Family
- Anhimidae (Screamers)
- Order
- Anseriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Southern Screamer
- Described by
- (Oken, L, 1816)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaja torquata
- Described by
- (Oken, L, 1816)
- Type locality
- 'In Paraguay, um Plata.'
- Original description
- Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte pt3 sec.2 p.639
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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