Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)

Other Names (World)
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, Cabanis's Tiger-Heron, Cabanis's Tiger-bittern, Mexican Tiger-Heron, Mexican Tiger-bittern, Bare-throated Tiger Heron

Family
Ardeidae (Herons)

Size
71 - 81 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1834

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Coastal western and eastern Mexico through central America to north-western Colombia.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (29)...)

Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) [XC115532]
by Oscar Ram\u00edrez Al\u00e1n from Puntarenas, Costa Rica (call)

Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) [XC376115]
by Kent Livezey from Provincia de Guanacaste, Costa Rica (call)

Subspecies
Upland population of Sonora and Sinaloa (southern Mexico) formerly assigned separate subspecies fremitus.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) - 10 files

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