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Swimming Swamp Birds

  • December 13, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The hoatzin is a primitive South American bird that builds its nest over swamp waters. The young have claws on their wings and are great swimmers — so if their nest is threatened, they just drop into the water, swim to shore, and climb back home!

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