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PIED HERON FACTS |
Description
The Pied Heron is grey with a yellow bill and legs. The top of the head and crest is black and face and neck are white. Immature are brown or grey above with no crest and have white head, neck and underside.
Other Names
Pied Egret, White-headed Egret
Size
43cm - 48cm
Habitat
edges of swamps, lakes, lagoons, mangroves, mudflats
Food
fish, frogs, crustaceans, insects
Breeding
The Pied Heron builds a platform of sticks in a tree. They nest in colonies - often with other species of heron. Three to six blue-white eggs are laid.
Range
coastal northern Australia from Kimberleys in Western Australia round to Townsville in Queensland
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Ciconiiformes | | Family: | Ardeidae | | Genus: | Ardea | | Species: | picata | | Common Name: | Pied Heron |
Relatives in same Genus
Great Egret (A. alba)
Cattle Egret (A. ibis)
Intermediate Egret (A. intermedia)
Pacific Heron (A. pacifica)
Great-billed Heron (A. sumatrana)
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