barge-beaks lives in moist forest-areas near rivers and freshwater-lagoons as well as marshland-ships and little Mars, provided only some trees exist as Niststandorte. These 50-62 cm big herons are widespread from Mexico to East-Bolivia and Brazil. Also on Trinidad, they are native.
Shape Barge-beaks has be a long one, far on the back moving black head-bonnet, also the "shoulders" black. The remaining back-plumage is gray. Forehead, head-sides and throat rise knows from. Stomach and Beinbefiederung are colored powerfully cinnamon-brown. The blackish beak (8 cm long and 5 cm wide) is strongly curved and just as broadly as the head.
Way of life Barge-beaks live as a loner and are predominant twilight - and night-active birds, therefore also the big eyes. they live from cancer-animals, fishing and amphibians, also mice, rats and other small-mammals should belong to its food.
Reproduction To the incubation, the partners perform courtship display under vehement beak-clatter and with raised feather-bonnet.
The nest is a flat construction out of brushwood; occasionally, several nests stand in small colonies together. The nest consists of 2 - 4 bluish eggs and becomes erbrütet from both alto-birds.
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