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boat-billed heron

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boat-billed heron or boatbill, a tropical New World heron heron (hĕr`ən), common name for members of the family Ardeidae, large wading birds including the bittern and the egret, found in
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, Chochlearius chochlearius. With shorter legs and a squatter appearance than most herons, this bird is remarkable chiefly for its broad bill, which is shaped like an overturned boat. Its coloring is dull brown, gray, and black and is similar in both the male and female. It is a nocturnal, shallow-water feeder, living on a diet of fishes and insects; it roosts and nests in trees. The boat-billed heron inhabits mangrove swamps from Mexico to S Brazil. It is classified in the phylum Chordata Chordata (kôrdā`tə,–dä`–)
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, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Ciconiiformes, family Ardeidae.

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