Showing posts with label Egretta sacra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egretta sacra. Show all posts

Saturday, July 1, 2017

REEF HERON

Photographed at Mount Mamganui, New Zealand, June 2017
(*  289)                   REEF HERON (dark morph)                     Egretta sacra 

NEW ZEALAND                61

Uncommon native; c. 500 birds found in mangrove filled inlets, rocky shores, wave platforms and sometimes intertidal mudflats; commonest in North Island, numbers decreasing southwards. 66 cm.