Animals

His Unique Pattern Of Zebra-like Stripes Helps Showcase A Throat That Completely Bares It All!

The highly unique zebra-like patterning sets off his bare-skinned bright yellow throat to perfection.

The Bare-throated tiger heron

Photo courtesy of © Hans Hillewaert/CC BY-SA 3.0

The bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) is 80 cm (28 – 32) in length and weighs in at 1200 grams. This birds throat is bare-skinned and tinged greenish yellow to orange. Adult birds have a black crown and light gray on the sides of the head, the sides of the neck, and on their upper parts. The median ᵴtriƥe down the foreneck is white-bordered with black. The remaining underparts of this bird are dull cinnamon brown.

“Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Juvenile)” by Becky Matsubara is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Juvenile birds are buff coarsely barred with black, more mottled, and vermiculated on their wings.

Males give a booming hrrrowwr call, especially at sunset.

“Bare-throated Tiger Heron (49788802161)” by Becky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

These birds are found from Mexico through Central America into northwestern Colombia.

“Bare-throated Tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum)” by berniedup is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Bare-throated Tiger Heron is a lover of tropical swamps. Along the coast, it is typically a mangrove species. It is found, however, in a variety of coastal and freshwater situations, typically characterized as forest-edged aquatic habitats.

“Bare-throated Tiger-Heron” by Becky Matsubara is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

A wading bird the Bare-necked tiger heron often stands in shallow water or on the edge of the water, with its neck, stretched out diagonally, waiting motionless for long periods hunting for fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and other vertebrates

“Bare-throated Tiger-Heron” by Becky Matsubara is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

The breeding season for these is variable. Though in Costa Rica nesting may be year-round peaking early in the rainy season. It breeds from May through to August in most of its range but from February through to April in Panama. The tiger heron nests solitarily in trees above the water, mainly in mangrove trees. Nests are small to large flat constructions made of sticks usually lined with leaves. They are placed on branches 4-15 m above the ground. A clutch of 1 to 3 eggs is laid within.

“File:Tigrisoma mexicanum 4.jpg” by Hans Hillewaert is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

This species has a very large range and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion set by the IUCN.

“File:Bare-throated Tiger Heron.jpg” by James Diedrick is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

You can watch and listen to this bird right here in the video below:

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