Monday, June 5, 2017

LITTLE HERON

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017
(*  106)                   LITTLE HERON                   Butorides striata

MALAYSIA                  40

Commonly called Striated Heron. Found stalking on the mud at the edge of rivers, mangroves or the sea, even along small forest streams. 45 cm. Throughout much of tropics and subtropics in South America, Africa and Australasia. and in Asia extending as far N as Japan and Ussuriland. Common throughout SE Asia as resident and migrant.



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