Bare-throated Tiger Heron
Tigrisoma mexicanumSwainson, WJ, 1834
English (US) Bare-throated Tiger Heron
The Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) in the order Pelecaniformes.
Range: wet lowlands of coastal western and eastern Mexico (from southern Sonora and southern Tamaulipas) southward through Central America to far northwestern Colombia (lower Atrato Valley), with an extremely disjunct population in northwestern PeruRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron
- Described by
- Swainson, WJ, 1834
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tigrisoma mexicana
- Described by
- Swainson, WJ, 1834
- Type locality
- Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico.
- Original description
- An encyclopædia of geography [etc.] pt.3 p.1383
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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