Thursday, October 15, 2015

BLACK BITTERN

Photographed on the Daintree River, near Daintree Village, Queensland October 2015
716         BLACK BITTERN             Ixobrychus flavicollis

Australia         (558)

Found in shadowy, leafy waterside trees: callistemons, casuarinas, paperbarks, eucalypts, mangroves, willows; tidal creeks, sheltered mudflats, oyster-slats. 54-66 cm. range: coastal n., e. and sw Aust., Torres Strait and Christmas Is. From Pilbara (WA) to far e. Vic, where a few pairs breed; rare s. of Sydney (NSW) and far sw. WA Sedentary.






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