Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (species: Tigrisoma mexicanum) in Parque Nacional Volcán Tenorio, Costa Rica (Gaia Guide)
Tigrisoma mexicanum
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron


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©Bryant Olsen: Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Ciconiiformes
Family Ardeidae
Genus Tigrisoma
Species Tigrisoma mexicanum

Colours

                        

Distinguishing features

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. (Wikipedia)

Size

  • From 71 cm to 81 cm (Length of specimen)

Wingspan

  • Up to 114 cm

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Distribution

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