Balaeniceps rex (2009)
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
🇩🇪 Schuhschnabel 🇬🇧 Shoe Beak

The shoe beak is an African bird. Named after its powerful beak, the bird is an inhabitant of swamps. Since his morphology is unique, he is assigned to his own family, the Balaenicipitidae.

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