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Boat-billed Heron

Cochlearius cochlearius

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Field Notes

Description:

It measures 51 cm. and weighs 600 grams. It is stocky, big head, big dark eyes and a huge shoe- shaped beak.

Habitat:

They live in riparian forests (gallery forests), wetlands, margins of ponds. estuaries or mangroves.

Notes:

They are mostly nocturnal and they feed on fish.

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Comments (1)
ceherzog
Wow! I've never seen a heron like that! Super shots.

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PublishedSeptember 5, 2011

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