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Oropendola Skeleton

While travelling in Central and South America, I frequently saw large birds in the New World blackbird family called oropendolas. The males perform a display activity which involves falling forward while uttering a funny creaking sound. I use that sound as the ringtone on my mobile phone. This oropendola skeleton is at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington.

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Uploaded on October 3, 2019
Taken on August 12, 2012