Murray Cooper / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi) on palm, Ecuador

Marcos Baumann/ BIA / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi) swallowing fish, Santiago, Chile

Richard Du Toit / South African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa), Impala (Aepyceros melampus) and birds including Wooly necked stork (Ciconia episcopus) and Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) at waterhole, Kruger Nati...

Gabriel Rojo / White-necked heron (Ardea cocoi) Ibera Marshes, Corrientes Province, Argentina

Suzi Eszterhas / Jacare Caiman (Caiman yacare), Great Egret (Ardea alba), Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria), Wood Stork (Mycteria americana), Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), White-necked Heron (Ardea co...

Sean Crane / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi) perched in a tree, Tuichi River, Pampas, Bolivia

Glenn Bartley / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi), Manu National Park, Peru

Christophe Courteau / Cocoi / White-necked heron (Ardea cocoi) flying over river, Pantanal, Brazil, July

Pete Oxford / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi), Rupununi, Guyana

Murray Cooper / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi) in wetland, Colombia

Suzi Eszterhas / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi), Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil

Suzi Eszterhas / White-necked Heron (Ardea cocoi) walking, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil