boat-billed heron, boatbill (Cochlearius cochlearius) Description
Deutsch: Hoflößnitz, Eckhout: Bild 08: Tamatiaguacu
Date between 1653 and 1659
Source Dante Martins Teixeira: Os quadros de aves tropicais do Castelo de Hoflössnitz na Saxônia e Albert Eckhout (ca. 1610–1666), artista do Brasil Holandês. Rev. Inst. Estud. Bras., 2009, Nr. 49, S. 67–90. ISSN 0020-3874. (Online-Version).
Author Albert Eckhout (circa 1610–circa 1666)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hofl%C3%B6ssnitz_Eckhout_08br.jpg
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.
