STRIATED HERON

Photographed on the Central coast of NSW

106      STRIATED HERON         Butorides striatus

Australia     (106)

Also known as Mangrove Heron. 43-51 cm., wingspan c. 70 cm. Range around coast from Eden north across the top of Australia and down the west coast to Shark Bay. Also found in the Americas, Afro-Asia, PNG and Polynesia. Found in mangroves, tidal waterways, mudflats, jetties, wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes.

Photographed in South Africa, where it is often called Green-Backed Heron