hoatzin in English
noun
1
a large tree-dwelling tropical American bird with weak flight. Young hoatzins have hooked claws on their wings, enabling them to climb around among the branches.
All these animals had acquired adaptations for quadrupedal climbing similar to those of the modern young hoatzin , a bird native to tropical South America.
noun
stinkbird
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1. Historically, the buttonquails (Turnicidae), mesites (Mesitornithidae) and the hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) were placed in the Galliformes, too.