Rufescent Tiger-heron

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Rufescent Tiger-heron
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Tigrisoma
Species: T. lineatum
Binomial name
Tigrisoma lineatum
(Boddaert, 1783)

The Rufescent Tiger-heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is swamps.

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