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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pilherodius
- Image
- Pilherodius pileatus -near pond-6.JPG
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Pilherodius pileatus
- taxon name
- Pilherodius pileatus
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- Pilherodius pileatus
- taxon common name
- garça-real-neotropical
- taxon range
- Belém
- short name
- P. pileatus
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Encyclopedic overview
Pilherodius pileatus Río Amacayacu, Amazonas, Colombia The capped heron (Pilherodius pileatus) is a water bird endemic to the neotropics, inhabiting rainforest from the center of Panama to the south of Brazil. It is the only species of the genus Pilherodius, and one of the least known of the heron family, Ardeidae. It is superficially similar to the group of the night herons, but is active during daytime or at twilight.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Capped Heron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.