This week I thought you might find this skeleton to be an interesting identification challenge:
Any idea what this might be?
It will probably be a bit on the easy side for some of you (Wouter, I’m looking at you!) so if you know what it is then try to be a bit cryptic with you answer in the comments section below. Have fun!
Zygoma 
Apparently, this species processes sound twice as well as you might expect from a bird. Very nice skeleton by the way.
Nicely done 😉
Water bird? Wader?
Well, it’s a wader, but not a Wader.
The groove from the nares all the way down the upper bill is interesting.
Does the upper jaw have tooth-like thingies, like some ducks? Not that this is at all like a duck.
No tooth-like thingies on this one.
A South American species of Nycticoracinae????
Right family, but wrong subfamily.
Perhaps I’m wrong (I have not here the book), but on HBW C. cochlearis is in Nycticoracinae…
Ah, using a different taxonomic ref! Apologies, that’s the trouble with higher taxonomies…
I think Wouter has it has it right.
😉
That’s a bill big enough to go to sea in!
Nice 😉