Black heron

Occurs in isolated patches of sub-Saharan Africa; in southern Africa, it is uncommon to locally common in central and southern Mozambique, eastern and central South Africa (centred on Gauteng), Zimbabwe, northern Botswana and the Caprivi Strip of Namibia. It generally favours shallow, permanent water bodies such as marshes, rivers, lakes and dams, sometimes occupying seasonally flooded grassland and estuaries.