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Snake birds and water turkeys named darters explained
Uncle Ray in the La Crosse Tribune explains the darter or snake bird, a three foot waterfowl with a long neck. It lives in southern U S Mexico Central America and parts of South America and hunts fish by chasing them under water. Nests are rough and placed in bushes near water. Frogs dislike salt water but have colonized some remote islands.
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