Boat-billed heron / Kahnschnabel (Cochlearius cochlearius)

Boat billed heron in Cahuita, Costa Rica. 2020-03-17 16:57:49 Costa Rica SM-G975F Shutter speed 1/33
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Classification: Genus Cochlearius; Family Herons (Ardeidae)
General: The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly placed in a monotypic family, the Cochlearidae. It lives in mangrove swamps from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil. It is a nocturnal bird, and breeds semicolonially in mangrove trees, laying two to four bluish-white eggs in a twig nest. [more]

First documented observation: 2020-03-17 in Costa Rica. Most recent observation: 2023-04-15 in Yucatan.