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

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