finfoot

The breeding behaviour of the Masked Finfoot is almost entirely unknown.

African fish eagle and African finfoot are found along the Blyde River.

The park is also known for its variety of avian species including various falcons, the blue-headed bee-eater and the African Finfoot.

The Masked Finfoot is an underwater specialist with a long neck, a striking sharp beak and lobed feet which are green.

The Masked Finfoot is considered endangered and declining, with fewer than 2,500 birds estimated to be the world population, and populations are fragmented.

Little quantitative information on finfoot diet exists, but they have also been recorded eating molluscs, crustaceans, spiders, frogs, fish and some leaves and seeds.

African Finfoot - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Among the many birds found in the reserve are the white-winged wood duck (Cairina scutulata) and the masked finfoot (Heliopais personata).

The Masked Finfoot can be found in a range of habitats across southern Asia and northern Indonesia in a variety of fresh to brackish wetlands.

The African Finfoot (Podica senegalensis) is an aquatic bird inhabiting the rivers and lakes of western, central, and southern Africa.

The African Finfoot belongs to a family whose only other members are the Masked Finfoot and the Sungrebe.

The wetlands are home to about 70 species of resident waterbirds including ducks, grebe, cormorants, bitterns, herons, egrets, storks, rails, jacanas, finfoot, waders, gulls, turns and skimmers.

The area is popular with birdwatchers coming to spot some of the most diverse and rare species in the world, the Masked Finfoot and the Brown-winged Kingfisher to name just a few.

The Sungrebe or American Finfoot (Heliornis fulica) is a bird which breeds in tropical Central and South America from southern Mexico to northeast Argentina and southern Brazil.

The Masked Finfoot or Asian Finfoot, (Heliopais personatus), is an aquatic bird from the fresh and brackish wetlands of southeastern Asia, Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Heliornithidae family, to which it belongs, contains just two other species: the African Finfoot, Podica senegalensis, and the Masked Finfoot Heliopais personatus, which breeds in eastern India down through southeast Asia to the Wallace Line.