- Botaurus pinnatus
Description
Location: Cassino, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Identification
Pinnated Bittern (Botaurus pinnatus)
Range: Central and South America. In Central America recorded in Mexico from southern Tamaulipas to Tabasco, in Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo. Also in Belize and Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Widespread in South America from Colombia, Venezula, Trinidad and the Guianas south to Ecuador, in the west, over most of Brazil except the east and south to Uruguay and northern Argentina. Resident.
Habitat: Densely vegetated swamps, sometimes feeding in paddyfields and cane plantations.
Subspecies: Nominate race occurs over most of range with longer-billed, paler and less streaked caribaeus in Mexico and Belize.
