Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Bare-throated Tiger-heron FAMILY - Ardeidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Tigrisoma mexicanum REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 32 Resident, species present all year. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 31 No Valid or Questionable Record 31 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 6 Corozal 13 Orange Walk 6 Stann Creek 5 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Dry season 15 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 17 Sarstoon Delta Wildlife Sanctuary 17 Shipstern Nature Reserve Sighting Wet season 13 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 17 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 20 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 28 Gallon Jug 19 Bladen Nature Reserve 10 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary Permanent 27 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 5 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 11 Community Baboon Sanctuary Permanent 25 Community Baboon Sanctuary 21 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve 12 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Collected as voucher 30 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Wet season 4 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 8 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 9 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 14 Private land, see comments Sighting Permanent 7 Private land, see comments Dry season 22 Private land, see comments Dry season 23 Private land, see comments 17 Private land, see comments 24 Government land Sighting Dry season 22 Monkey River Special Development Area 26 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 28 Belize River 25 Belize River 22 Macal River 17 Temash River 17 Rio Grande 17 South Stann Creek 17 Deep River 17 Cox's Lagoon 4 Bladen Branch 10 Belize River 7 Mussel Creek 8 Sittee River 9 Sibun River 11 New River 12 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 28 1-200 m 29 1-200 m 30 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 30 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 24 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 25 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 28 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 22 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 29 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 29 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 29 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 17 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 00' to 88 10' 17 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 15' to 88 30' 17 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 13 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 26 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 17 15 50' to 16 00'; 88 50' to 89 15' 17 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 20 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 29 Subtropical wet 27 Subtropical moist 30 Subtropical moist 29 Subtropical moist 28 Subtropical moist 25 General Distribution Comments 32* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Common coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Common mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. Rare cayes inc. Ambergris. 24* Big Falls Rice Farm 23* Big Falls Rice Farm 22* Airport Camp; Big Falls 17* Ycacos Lagoon.; Toledo Settlement, 4 mi. W of Punta Gorda 16* Big Falls Road 15* Button Lagoon 14* Gold Button Ranch; observed nesting 10* Forest Hill; Hellgate upstream to Esperanza Bank and Ramos Quebrada 9* Possum Point Biological Station 3* Permanent resident common in northern hardwood forests, common in coastal savannas and common in mangroves and beaches along the coast of the mainland. 7* Banana Bank Ranch References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8 5 Matola, S., ed. 1990. The Cockscomb Basin Expedition Report June 11-18. Unpublished report 6 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 7 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 8 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 9 Anon. 1993. Bird Checklist for Possum Point Biological Station, Sittee River, Belize 10 Brokaw, N. L. V., T. L. Lloyd-Evans. 1987. The Bladen Branch Wilderness. p.38-42. Unpublished report. 11 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 12 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 13 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 14 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 15 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 16 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 17 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 18 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 19 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 20 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 21 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 22 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 23 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 24 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 25 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data. 26 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 27 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 28 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 29 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 30 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 31 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 32 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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