Jabiru

• anatomíaIt is one of the largest flying birds in the Americas and builds huge nests that it reuses and enlarges year after year over several breeding seasons.
• It is the tallest flying bird in the Americas: it stands more than a metre and a half tall and spans more than three metres.
• It fishes blind and by touch: it puts its half-open bill into the murky water and snaps it shut by reflex within milliseconds on contact with a fish, without needing to see it.
• Its nest is an enormous platform that the pair enlarges year after year until it is more than a metre thick, and other species often nest beneath it to take advantage of the protection.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Wetlands, marshes, floodplains and flooded savannah of tropical America

Sexual maturity

4 years

Gestation / incubation

32 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Jabiru mycteria

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.