Boat-billed heron / Kahnschnabel (Cochlearius cochlearius)

MerlinBirdID suggests boat-billed heron, which is difficult to judge from this angle but looks plausible, birding tour near Rio Lagartos. 2023-04-15 08:37:52 Yucatan NIKON D5600 ISO 400
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Observations

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

Description

Classification: Genus Cochlearius (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]

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