Relatively easy to find at the tourist town of Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu) on the other side of the Urubamba River.
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Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
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f/7
Color Space
sRGB
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0 EV
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Aperture Priority
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No Flash
Focal Length
600 mm
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500
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Multi-Segment
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1/12 sec
Date/Time
Tue 19 Oct 2010 12:20:32 AM EDT
English Fasciated Tiger Heron
Scientific (Tigrisoma fasciatum salmoni)
Order PELECANIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ardeidae
Family (English) Herons, Bitterns
Other name(s) Fasciated Tiger-heron, Fasciated Tiger-Heron
Breeding Regions MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions Costa Rica to n Bolivia and se SA
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Colombia,Costa Rica,Ecuador - mainland,Panama,Peru,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
salmoni Costa Rica to n Bolivia
fasciatum se Brazil to n Argentina
pallescens nw Argentina
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Such, 1825)
German Streifenreiher
French Onoré fascié
Chinese 横纹虎鹭
Japanese ズグロトラフサギ
Russian Полосатая тигровая цапля
Spanish Avetigre oscura
Portuguese socó-jararaca
Bird Data App text Smaller than the [Bare-throated Tiger Heron], and with a white throat. Usually found along mountain streams.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)