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Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Tigrisoma mexicanum
10.1978, -85.8255
Field Notes
Description:
The throat is bare and is greenish-yellow to orange in all plumages. The adult has black crown and light grey sides of head, the sides of the neck and the upperparts otherwise blackish narrowly barred buff. The median stripe down the foreneck is white bordered with black; the remaining underparts are dull cinnamon brown. The juvenile is buff coarsely barred with black, more mottled and vermiculated on wings; the throat, median underparts and belly are whitish.
Habitat:
Tropical dry forest in NW Costa Rica.
Notes:
This photo was taken by a fiend of mine on my property, Bob Ledbetter. I have watched this bird here for over a year. he is an opportunist. During the wettest part of the rainy season these past six weeks he primarily ate earthworm one after another from the rainsoaked ground!
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