ARDEIDAE

WHITE-NECKED HERON: Ardea cocoi

Flooded areas, aquatic environments, grassland.   

                                     
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    RUFESCENT TIGER-HERON: Tigrisoma lineatum
 

  Are distributed over the northern and central Argentina. Aquatic environments and transition.

FASCIATED TIGER-HERON: Tigrisoma fasciatum

        Inhabits rainforest streams and rivers.

                                

         Photographs taken in Reserva Los Sosa, Tucumán province.
             

WHISTING HERON: Syrigma sibilatrix



        Inhabits en lakes, ponds, flooded areas and grasslands of northern and central Argentina.

   
 

            
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 PINNATED BITTERN: Botaurus pinnatus

   Hide. Mimicry. In rushes with his neck stretched and the peak upward

 STRIPE-BACKED BITTERN: Ixobrychus involucris

        Behavior similar to Pinnated Bittern. Small, 28 cm.
      Hidden from rushes. Similarities dried reeds.

            GREAT EGRET: Ardea alba

     The largest white herons, (65 cm).
Inhabits aquatic environments across the country     

              

                 
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      SNOWY EGRET: Egretta thula

    

   Totally white, smaller than the Great Egret (40 cm). Same environment.
 

    
         
              
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CATTLE EGRET: Bubulcus ibis
 

    It is often seen next to cattle. Flocks. Somewhat smaller (35 cm.) that the Snowy Egret
   

    

         
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LITTLE BLUE-HERON: Egretta caerulea                                                             

The earliest records of this species for Argentina dating from the early'90s.
While there is very little, there have been a series of observations confirm that allow
its presence in almost all the Argentine territory.


Ilustration by Maria Gabriela Arancio.

STRIATED HERON: Butorides striatus

     
     Observers in lagoons, rivers and streams, preferably with vegetation

 

   
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGTH HERON: Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli

       
   Twilight. Gregarious. Sits in trees. Gives a strong "Cuacos."




 

    
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 BLACK-CROWNED NIGTH HERON: Nycticorax nycticorax obscurus

       
   The southern subspecies is generally darker and gray ventrally. It inhabits the Patagonia region of Argentina.
   

Photographs taken at the Hua-Hum River, Lanin National Park, Neuquen province.

BOAT-BILLED HERON: Cochlearius cochlearia                                                      

        Inhabits forest streams in northeastern Argentina.

    Photographs taken in Parque das Aves, Brasil.

            
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