RUFESCENT TIGER-HERON Tigrisoma lineatum
Tiger-Herons are intermediate between true herons and bitterns - the relation to the latter particularly obvious in the bittern-like juvenile plumage. They are stocky, thick-necked herons, often quite crepuscular in behaviour and freely perch in trees. Nervous birds flick the tail slowly (see FPAVE128VI), before flushing to a low tree giving a croaking call.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE121PH) Adult lateral view, Fuerte Olimpo, Departamento Alto Paraguay (Paul Smith September 2006).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE122PH) Adult ventral view, location unknown (Frank Fragano undated).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE123PH) Adult head detail, Zoologico Juan XXIII, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2007).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE124PH) Adult in flight, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE125PH) Subadult, Lolita, Departamento Presidente Hayes (Marcelo Bombaci October 2007).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE126PH) Same individual in flight (Marcelo Bombaci October 2007).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE127PH) Juvenile, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Lars Hansen February 2006).
FIGURE 8 - (FPAVE4192PH) Upperwing of juvenile roadkill, Ruta Trans Chaco, Departamento Presidente Hayes (LPaul Smith March 2015).
VIDEO - (FPAVE128VI) Adult tail-flicking, Lagunita, Mbaracayú Forest Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Paul Smith September 2006).
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Tigrisoma lineatum
1 (FPAVE129RE) Flushing  recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
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