boat-billed heron, boatbill (Cochlearius cochlearius) Description
English: Taken along the Tarcoles River in Costa Rica.
Date 12 December 2008, 06:17:06
Author Joseph C Boone https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Joseph_C_Boone
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boat-billed_Heron_JCB.jpg
The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly thought to be in a monotypic family, Cochlearidae. It lives in mangrove swamps from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil. It is a nocturnal bird, and breeds semi-colonially in mangrove trees, laying 2–4 bluish white eggs in a twig nest.
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Cochlearius
Species: Cochlearius cochlearius Linnaeus, 1766
