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Javan - Pond Heron

Ardeola speciosa

Photo by Deny
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Field Notes

Description:

The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs.

The Javan pond heron is typically 45 cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is orange, slaty and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. The non-breeding plumage is similar to that of the Chinese and Indian pond herons and is virtually indistinguishable in the field. It breeds from June to September. It is migratory. (source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javan_pond_heron)

Habitat:

Saltland.

Notes:

Soliter bird . Looks for interesting to the fish into that canals of saltland .

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