Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)

Other Scientific Names
Cochlearius cochlearia [BirdLife International (2004)], Cochlearius cochlearia [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Other Names (World)
Boat-billed Heron, Northern Boat-billed Heron (zeledoni/phillipsi/ridgwayi), Southern Boat-billed Heron (cochlearius)

Family
Ardeidae (Herons)

Size
45 - 51 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Inland wetlands. From sea-level - 800 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (B), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius) [XC880041]
by id from PN Tikal, Pet\u00e9n, Guatemala (call)

Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius) [XC257335]
by Manuel Grosselet from Orellana: Laguna A\u00f1angu ('Napo Wildlife Center'), s-bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (call, disturbance calls by day)

Subspecies
The three northern subspecies sometimes considered a separate species, Cochlearius zeledoni. Birds from north-western Costa Rica, currently placed in subspecies panamensis, are intermediate between the two groups.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

zeledoni (Ridgway, 1885) - West-central Mexico.
phillipsi Dickerman, 1973 - Eastern Mexico and Belize.
ridgwayi Dickerman, 1973 - Southern Mexico to western Honduras and El Salvador.
panamensis Griscom, 1926 - Costa Rica and Panama.
cochlearius (Linnaeus, 1766) - Eastern Panama to Guianas, and Amazonia south to north-eastern Argentina.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius) - 10 files

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