Angelo Gandolfi / Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) Corcovado National Park. Osa, Costa Rica.

Angelo Gandolfi / Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) Corcovado National Park. Osa, Costa Rica.

Angelo Gandolfi / Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) and Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) fishing in Rio Claro river, Corcovado National Park. Osa, Costa Rica.

Claudio Contreras / Bare-throated tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum), Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, August

David Pattyn / Bare-throated tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) in flight Rio Tarcoles river, Tarcoles, Costa Rica

Derek Galon / Timelapse of a Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar feeding on Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica), Dominica, Lesser Antilles.

Adrian Davies / Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) Costa Rica.

Adrian Davies / Bare-throated tiger heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) Costa Rica.

Robert Pickett / Mexican Tiger Rump Tarantula (Davas pentalobus) Mexico.