boat-billed heron, boatbill (Cochlearius cochlearius) Description
English: Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius) - Jacksonville Zoo, Florida
Date 15 March 2012
Author DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boat-billed_Heron_RWD2.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.