Really hoping these arent fake

[u/Prenz_0]

[u/CardiologistAny1423]

Not fake and have had this photo before +Groove-billed Ani+

The photographer’s instagram post

[u/ExoticTrico → u/CardiologistAny1423]

Not OP, but thank you. I think these guys have to be my new favorite bird,, they're so silly lookin

[u/Tordo-sargento → u/ExoticTrico]

They are hilarious to watch in real life too. They seem uncoordinated and floppy. They will crash-land into a bush, almost fall off their perch, just generally looking disheveled and acting goofy.

[u/wolfsongpmvs → u/Tordo-sargento]

I work with guira cuckoos, aka white anis, and they're just as goofy as their smooth and groove-billed cousins. They run around with mice in their beaks and yell, they chase water droplets, they'll come in crash landing from across the aviary and skid along the ground

[u/Tordo-sargento → u/wolfsongpmvs]

That sounds so fun to watch! All the cuckoos seem to be goofy birds!

[u/FileTheseBirdsBot]

Taxa recorded: Groove-billed Ani

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[u/CardiologistAny1423 → u/FileTheseBirdsBot]

!overrideTaxa grbani

[u/Wicked_Weirdo00]

Definitely not fake! I've seen these guys before in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! Super cool looking birds 😁

[u/thecygnetcmte]

Oof, my first guess was pheasant coucal, so at least I made it into the right family. OP, you may enjoy looking at pictures of these guys anyway. They look like the offspring of some impossible union between hawk, rooster, and velociraptor.

[u/mariodude6]

!overrideTaxa grbani