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title: "Horned Screamer"
description: "Anhima cornuta — Birds. The horned screamer (Anhima cornuta) is a species of waterfowl that belongs to a relatively small family, the Anhimidae, which occurs in wetlands of tropical South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/horned-screamer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Horned Screamer

> Anhima cornuta — Birds. The horned screamer  (Anhima cornuta) is a species of waterfowl that belongs to a relatively small family, the Anhimidae, which occurs in wetlands of tropical South America.

- Scientific name: *Anhima cornuta*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 1891
- Wikidata: [Q732753](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732753)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6908](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6908)

## Names

- en: Horned Screamer
- de: Hornwehrvogel
- es: Aruco
- fr: Kamichi cornu
- nl: Anioema
- pt: Anhuma
- pl: Skrzydłoszpon rogaty

## Countries with the most observations

BR (621), PE (571), CO (368), EC (127), BO (65), VE (14), GY (4)

## Summary

The horned screamer  (Anhima cornuta) is a species of waterfowl that belongs to a relatively small family, the Anhimidae, which occurs in wetlands of tropical South America. There are three screamer species, the other two being the southern screamer and the northern screamer in the genus Chauna. They are related to ducks, geese and swans, which are in the family Anatidae, but have bills looking more like those of Galliformes.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_screamer

## Photo

![Horned Screamer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/horned-screamer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ítalo Rocha · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/370380945

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/horned-screamer?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).