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| Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017 |
MALAYSIA 53
Mainly nocturnal; found in tall, thick reeds and grasses at edge of ponds and rivers. 58 cm. Non-breeding migrant to Malaysian Peninsula.
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Monday, June 5, 2017
BLACK BITTERN
MALAYSIA 53
Mainly nocturnal; found in tall, thick reeds and grasses at edge of ponds and rivers. 58 cm. Non-breeding migrant to Malaysian Peninsula.
Monday, May 22, 2017
BLACK BITTERN
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| Subspecies flavicollis, March 2017 |
(* 716) BLACK BITTERN Dupetor flavicollis
SRI LANKA 94
Found in roadbeds, marshes and waterside vegetation, favours dense tangles. 58 cm. fairly rare breeding resident in lowlands; fairly common winter migrant to lowlands and less so up to mid hills.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
BLACK BITTERN
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| Photographed on the Daintree River, near Daintree Village, Queensland October 2015 |
716 BLACK BITTERN Ixobrychus flavicollis
Australia (558)
Found in shadowy, leafy waterside trees: callistemons, casuarinas, paperbarks, eucalypts, mangroves, willows; tidal creeks, sheltered mudflats, oyster-slats. 54-66 cm. range: coastal n., e. and sw Aust., Torres Strait and Christmas Is. From Pilbara (WA) to far e. Vic, where a few pairs breed; rare s. of Sydney (NSW) and far sw. WA Sedentary.
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