Australian Egrets, Herons, Bitterns
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FAMILY : Egrets, Herons, Bitterns
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Cattle Egret
(Ardea ibis) |
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The Cattle Egret is a small white egret with a yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season it develops a tan head, neck and breast, and reddish orange bill tipped with yellow. Juvenile birds are white with grey bill. Click to continue> |
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Great Egret
(Ardea alba) |
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The Great Egret is a large white water bird with yellow bill. The neck is about one and a half times as long as the body. It has dark grey or black legs. The bill becomes very dark almost black in the breeding season, and the skin on face becomes... Click to continue> |
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Great-billed Heron
(Ardea sumatrana) |
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The Great-billed Heron is a large heron. It is grey with long heavy bill. It has some long lighter grey plumes on head upper breast and shoulders giving a streaked appearance. The eye is yellow, with some yellow skin surrounding it. Young birds are... Click to continue> |
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Intermediate Egret
(Ardea intermedia) |
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The Intermediate Egret is intermediate in size between the Little Egret and the Great Egret. It is white with yellow bill and grey legs. In the breeding season the bill turns reddish and it develops plumes on back and chest. Males and females are... Click to continue> |
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Pacific Heron
(Ardea pacifica) |
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The Pacific Heron has a white head and neck and dark grey body and wings, with black bill and black legs. No other Australian heron has these colours. The breeding plumage has maroon coloured plumes on the back and wings. Immatures are buff white... Click to continue> |
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Pied Heron
(Ardea picata) |
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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. Click to continue> |
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Australasian Bittern
(Botaurus poiciloptilus) |
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The Australasian Bittern is a large stocky heron with streaked brown, black and buff plumage. The underside is paler streaked with brown and creamy buff. It has brown bill. The head is brown on top with paler face and a darker streak below the eye... Click to continue> |
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Striated Heron
(Butorides striatus) |
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The Striated Heron is a squat heron with large head and small drooping crest. The back and wings are green grey, with wing feathers outlined with yellow The neck is streaked down the centre with black, dark brown and white The underside is pinkish... Click to continue> |
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Intermediate Egret
(Egretta intermedia) |
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The Intermediate Egret is a medium sized white egret. It looks similar to the Great Egret, but is smaller, has a more rounded head and the orange bill is shorter and not so acute angled. The neck is about the same length as the body. In breeding... Click to continue> |
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Little Egret
(Egretta garzetta) |
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The Little Egret is a small white egret with grey-black legs, black bill and a bright yellow naked face. In the breeding season has two long head plumes, Click to continue> |
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Reef Heron
(Egretta sacra) |
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The Reef Heron has two colour variations. Some birds have white plumage and others are charcoal-grey. They all have yellow legs and brown beaks. Click to continue> |
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White-faced Heron
(Egretta novaehollandiae) |
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The White-faced Heron is light blue-grey heron with a white face. Young birds have less white on the face. Adults have yellow legs and juveniles have greenish yellow legs. Click to continue> |
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Malay Night Heron
(Gorsachius melanolophus) |
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Black Bittern
(Ixobrychus flavicollis) |
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Blackish, with a prominent yellow stripe down each side of the neck, and yellow streaks on the throat and chest. Females are slightly paler than males, sometimes tinged rufous. Juveniles brownish and paler than adults.
Shy and secretive,... Click to continue> |
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Little Bittern
(Ixobrychus minutus) |
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Yellow Bittern
(Ixobrychus sinensis) |
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Black-crowned Night Heron
(Nycticorax nycticorax) |
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Nankeen Night-heron
(Nycticorax caledonicus) |
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The Nankeen Night-heron is a compact heron with large head and stooped posture. The crown and back of neck is black. The back is rufous red and underside is creamy white with buff tinge. During breeding the head has two or three long slender plumes.... Click to continue> |
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