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Honduran Boat-Billed Heron This pair of the Honduran Boat-Billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius ssp. ridgwayi) resides at the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida. Boat-billed Heron,Cochlearius cochlearius,Geotagged,United States Click/tap to enlarge PromotedCountry intro

Honduran Boat-Billed Heron

This pair of the Honduran Boat-Billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius ssp. ridgwayi) resides at the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida.

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    WildFlower
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    What an odd looking bird! Posted 11 years ago
  2. View Luka Esenko's profile
    Luka Esenko
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    An amazing bird indeed! This is actually a heron, https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/honduran-boat-billed-heron Posted 4 years ago
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      Thanks for clearing that up Luka!
      JD doesn't support ID to subspecies yet, so I've added the ID to species, which has a note on the subspecies in the description :o)
      Cheers, Arp       Posted 4 years ago

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The Boat-billed Heron

The Boat-billed Heron - colloquially known as the Boatbill - is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly thought to be in a monotypic family, Cochlearidae.

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Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises
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Uploaded Apr 4, 2014. Captured Mar 21, 2014 13:07 in 370 Zoo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32218, USA.
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  • NIKON D5200
  • f/8.0
  • 1/2000s
  • ISO1600
  • 400mm