The Hunter - Black Bittern

Описание: Black Bittern
Ixobrychus flavicollis

The Black Bittern is a medium black or dark brown heron with a brown and white striped throat bordered by yellow.

The Black Bittern is identified by its size, dark back, striped neck bordered by a striking yellow streak, and its long bill. It is usually seen flying away into thick cover. It is distinguished from the other Ixobrychus bitterns by its dark back color with yellow neck and its larger size. It is distinguished from the Gorsachius night herons and the New Guinea Tiger-Heron by its uniformly dark plumage and disproportionately long dagger-like bill. It is distinguished from the Green Backed Heron by its uniformly dark upper parts, yellow patch and breast stripes.

Habitats
This species typically uses thick scrubby vegetation, particularly forested streams and pools in permanent wetlands. But it uses a variety of habitats including swamps, mud flats, reed beds, wet forests, flooded bushy areas, marshes, forested streams, Pandanus fringed channels in swamps, Melaleuca swamps and coastal mangroves in Australia. Although primarily a lowland species, it occurs up to 1,200 m in India. It winters in reed beds around lagoons, pools and reservoirs in peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. It uses trees and reeds to rest and roost.

This particular black bittern was click inside Kathmandu valley.

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