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The diet includes fish, water bugs and occasionally lizards, snails and rodents. | The diet includes fish, water bugs and occasionally lizards, snails and rodents. | ||
Revision as of 13:39, 18 March 2009
- Busarellus nigricollis
Identification
- White head tinged with buff, black shaft streaks on crown
- Bright cinnamon rufous body, including mantle (paler on chest)
- Black crescent on upper breast
- Back has scattered black shaft stripes
- Black flight and tail feathers
- Base of tail barred with rufous
- Bright reddish brown eyes
- Black cere and bill
- Bluish white legs
Immature - similar, blotched with black, including on the crown. Rufous barring on tail is more extensive; pale area on the chest is also more clearly marked. Barring on upper surface of the wings. Brown eyes
Distribution
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
There are 2 subspecies:
- B. n. nigricollis
- B. n. leucocephalus
Habitat
Moist lowland forests and swamps.
Behaviour
Breeding
A large tree is used for nesting, usually associated with water. The nest is lined with leaves. A clutch of 3-5 dull white eggs, spotted and speckled pale yellow-brown or red-brown, is laid.
Diet
The diet includes fish, water bugs and occasionally lizards, snails and rodents.
References
Wikipedia
