The Anhinga ( Anhinga anhinga ), sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, American Darter, or Water Turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas.

The Anhinga is placed in the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to Indian ( Anhinga melanogaster ), African ( A. rufa ), and Australian ( A. novaehollandiae ) Darters.

The female Anhinga is similar to the male Anhinga except that it has a pale gray-buff or light brown head, neck, and upper chest.

Unlike ducks, the Anhinga is not able to waterproof its feathers using oil produced by the uropygial gland.

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The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter ( Anhinga melanogaster ) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Oriental Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American ( Anhinga anhinga ), African ( Anhinga rufa, with vulsini of Madagascar as a subspecies ), and Australasian ( Anhinga novaehollandiae ) Darters.

The African Darter ( Anhinga rufa ), sometimes called the Snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa.

The African Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American ( Anhinga anhinga ), Oriental ( Anhinga melanogaster ), and Australian ( Anhinga novaehollandiae ) Darters.

* Anhinga anhinga at the Internet Bird Collection

Bird species sighted in Thung Yai include White-winged Wood Duck ( Cairina scutulata ), Kalij Pheasant ( Lophura leucomelanos ), Grey Peacock-pheasant ( Polyplectron bicalcaratum ), Green Peafowl ( Pavo muticus ), Spot-billed Pelican ( Pelecanus philippensis ), Oriental Darter ( Anhinga melanogaster ), Painted Stork ( Mycteria leucocephala ), Greater Adjutant ( Leptoptilos dubius ), Red-headed Vulture ( Sarcogyps calvus ), Mountain Hawk-eagle ( Nisaetus nipalensis ), Lesser Fish Eagle ( Ichthyophaga humilis ) and all six species of Hornbill ( Bucerotidae ) living in Mainland Southeast Asia.

Anhinga species are found all over the world in warm shallow waters.

The American Anhinga has been subdivided into two subspecies, A. a. anhinga and A. a. leucogaster, based on their location.

When necessary, the Anhinga will dry out its wings and feathers, with the resemblance of the semicircular full-spread shape of its group of tail feathers while drying them out, to that of true meleagrine males lending the name " water turkey " to it.

Anhinga will often search for food in small groups.

* Anhinga anhinga at BirdLife. org

These are shy birds which swim in slow-flowing streams and secluded waterways, sometimes partly submerged, like an Anhinga.

), cardinals ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), unidentified passerines, small ducks, juvenile anhingas ( Anhinga anhinga ), common egrets ( Ardea alba ), egrets, glossy ibises and their eggs ( Plegadis falcinellus ), tricolor herons ( Egretta tricolor ), herons and their eggs, pied-billed grebes ( Podilymbus podiceps ), short-tailed shrews ( Blarina brevicauda ), least shrews ( Cryptotis parva ), southeastern shrews ( Sorex longirostris ), eastern moles ( Scalopus aquaticus ), muskrats ( Ondatra zibethicus ), rice rats ( Oryzomys palustris ), hispid pocket mice ( Perognathus hispidus ), black rats ( Rattus rattus ), squirrels ( Sciurus spp.

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