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| Photographed at Fiveborough Wetlands, Leeton, NSW November 2015 (at about 8 pm) |
728 AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN Botaurus poiciloptilus
Australia (571)
Also called Australian or Brown Bittern. 66-76 cm; wingspan 1-1.2 m. Found in, or over, water in tall reed-beds, sedges, rushes, combungi, lignum, also rice fields; drains in tussocky paddocks; occasionally salt marsh, brackish wetlands. Seldom in trees. Range: coastal and sub-coastal se Aust., esp. Murray-Murrumbidgee region; se Tas., far s WA; casual Kimberley (WA). Sedentary, uncommon.
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