Saturday, July 26, 2014

NANKEEN NIGHT HERON

Photographs are of a juvenile bird before it gets adult plumage
198        NANKEEN NIGHT HERON        Nycticorax caledonicus

Australia      (198)

Also known as the Rufous Night Heron. 50-64 cm. ranges all over Australia except for driest areas of bottom of e. WA, w of SA and sw of NT. Found in shallow margins of rivers, wetlands, mangroves, floodwaters and garden trees.



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