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Cochlearius cochlearius (Boat-billed Heron)

Synonyms: Cancroma cochlearia; Cochlearius cochlearia; Cochlearius cochlearia cochlearius
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The boat-billed heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), colloquially known as the boatbill, is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly thought to be in a monotypic family, Cochlearidae. 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 2–4 bluish white eggs in a twig nest.
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Infraspecies

Cochlearius cochlearius cochlearius
Cochlearius cochlearius panamensis
Cochlearius cochlearius phillipsi
Cochlearius cochlearius ridgwayi
Cochlearius cochlearius zeledoni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
14
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 28.4151
EDGE Score: 3.38151
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.415 lbs (642 g)
Female Weight [1]  1.327 lbs (602 g)
Male Weight [1]  1.506 lbs (683 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  13.5 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Wetlands, Mangroves
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Wetlands, Mangroves
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Fish [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Forages - Ground [3]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  40 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 12 months
Clutch Size [5]  3
Incubation [4]  25 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  19 inches (48 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Belize Coastal and near shore islands Belize A1, A2, A3, A4i
Belize Off-shore and Barrier Islands Belize A1, A2, A4i, A4ii
Crooked Tree and associated wetlands Belize A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii
Maya Mountains and southern reserves Belize A1, A2, A3
Northeastern Belize Belize A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Cyprinodon variegatus (sheepshead minnow)[4]
Floridichthys carpio (Goldspotted killifish)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Centropomus undecimalis (Thin snook)1
Egretta rufescens (Reddish egret)2
Egretta tricolor (Tricolored Heron)2
Mycteroperca phenax (Scamp)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0