Boat-billed heron

Boat-billed heron
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Subfamily: Tigriornithinae
Genus: Cochlearius
Brisson, 1760
Species:
C. cochlearius
Binomial name
Cochlearius cochlearius
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Cancroma cochlearia Linnaeus, 1766
  • Cancroma cancrophaga Linnaeus, 1766
Boat-billed heron at ZooTampa at Lowry Park
Along the Tarcoles River, Costa Rica

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 semicolonially in mangrove trees, laying two to four bluish-white eggs in a twig nest.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Cochlearius cochlearius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22697250A130187930. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22697250A130187930.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.