INTERMEDIATE EGRET

 

*1319                  INTERMEDIATE EGRET                  Ardea intermedia                 

CAMBODIA               55

Split Intermediate Egret into three species on 23 September 2023: Yellow-billed Egret, Plumed Egret and Intermediate Egret. Intermediate Egret is found from Russia to Japan to South Indian Ocean and Greater Sundra. Stalks prey in shallow coastal or fresh water and flooded fields. Eats fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects.     

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023.

1319                  INTERMEDIATE EGRET                  Ardea intermedia                 

AUSTRALIA                    806

Split Intermediate Egret into three species on 23 September 2023: Yellow-billed Egret, Plumed Egret and Intermediate Egret. Intermediate Egret is found from Russia to Japan to South Indian Ocean and Greater Sundra. Stalks prey in shallow coastal or fresh water and flooded fields. Eats fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects.         

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

(*  215)                         INTERMEDIATE EGRET                    Mesophoyx intermedia

NEPAL                78

Inhabits marshes, flooded grassland, well-vegetated pools,; also sides of lakes, reservoirs and slow-moving rivers. 65-72 cm. Mainly resident and widespread, locally fairly common.

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

Photographed in Senur, Bali October 2016 

(see  215)             INTERMEDIATE EGRET           Egret intermedia

INDONESIA (Bali)         (35)        

Found mainly in freshwater marshes and paddy fields, and sometimes at tidal mudflats and estuaries. 70 cms. Range: Africa, the Oriental region and Australasia: partly migratory; resident on Java, Sumatra, Bali and north Sulawesi; a locally common, non-breeding visitor on other islands.

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

215            INTERMEDIATE EGRET               Ardea intermedia

Australia         (215)

Also known as Plumed Egret. 56-70 cm. Range across northern third of mainland and e. half of mainland and in Tasmania. Found in freshwater wetlands, pastures and crop land, idal mudflats and floodplains.

Note: two different subspecies. If split bird from Cocos Island is nominate species. Bird from Australia will become Plumed Egret.   NOTE: now split by IOC 23 September 2023. Bird below is now a separate species. 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023