GREY HERON

Subspecies cinerea, photographed March 2017

(*   370)                  GREY HERON                   Ardea cinerea 

SRI LANKA                   63   

Found in coastal lagoons, marshes, estuaries and tanks. 90-98 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands, rare in wet lowlands, and occasional visitor to the high hills.

GREY HERON

Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

(*  370)                      GREY HERON                    Ardea cinerea

NEPAL                    74

Found in lakes, large rivers and marshes. 90-98 cm. Rare resident and fairly common winter visitor, widespread below 915 cm.

GREY HERON

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see  370)              GREY HERON                   Ardea cinerea 

SINGAPORE        (9)        

Common resident and probable migrant, occurring in sandy beaches, reefs, mangroves, coastal mudflats, freshwater marshes, wet grassland and canals. 100 cm. Widespread across Eurasia and Africa, east to East and Southeast Asia.

GREY HERON

370           GREY HERON          Ardea cinerea

South Africa          (63)

Native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and southern Africa. Up to 100 cm tall and 84-102 cm long.