YELLOW BITTERN

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

 ( *866)              YELLOW BITTERN                    Ixobrychus sinensis  

CAMBODIA                   5        

Found in mangroves, freshwater marshes and wet grassland, including small stands of reeds in parkland. 37 cm. Breeds in N Indian sub-continent and much of E Asia to as far north as Russian Far East and Southeast Asia, east to Philippines.

YELLOW BITTERN

March 2017

(*   866)             YELLOW BITTERN              Ixobrychus sinensis

SRI LANKA          159

Found in roadbeds and vegetation at wetland edges. 38 cm. Fairly rare breeding resident in lowlands; common winter migrant to lowlands and up to lower hills and occasionally higher altitude.

YELLOW BITTERN

Photographed on Cocos Islands December 2016

(*   866)          YELLOW BITTERN             Ixobrychus sinensis

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)             (661)

Found in roadbeds, swamps, streams and estuaries. 30-40 cm. Breeds India, SE to NE Asia, Japan, Indonesia; has colonised some islands in Indian Ocean, SW Pacific. Rare in Australia, first record in Kalgoorlie 1967.

YELLOW BITTERN

(see      866)              YELLOW BITTERN                    Ixobrychus sinensis  

SINGAPORE         (15)        

Found in mangroves, freshwater marshes and wet grassland, including small stands of reeds in parkland. 37 cm. Breeds in N Indian sub-continent and much of E Asia to as far north as Russian Far East and Southeast Asia, east to Philippines.

YELLOW BITTERN

Photographed in central Bali October 2016

(866)              YELLOW BITTERN                    Ixobrychus sinensis  

INDONESIA (Bali)         (87)        

Usually found in large expanses of overgrown freshwater swamplands, often near the coast; sometimes seen in tidal mangroves and less often in short paddy fields; prefers tall, dense marsh and riverside vegetation, where it stalks aquatic invertebrates and tiny fish. 38 cm. Oriental region east in Australasia; partly migratory; resident on Sumatra; locally common winter visitor and possibly resident throughout much of Indonesia.