Boat-billed Heron
Cochlearius cochlearius
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 3,480
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family. It is the only member of the genus Cochlearius and was formerly placed in a monotypic family, the Cochleariidae. It lives in mangrove swamps from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil. It is a nocturnal bird, and breeds semi-colonially in mangrove trees, laying two to four bluish-white eggs in a twig nest.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Boat-billed heron”.