PURPLE HERON

Photographed southern outskirts of Siem Reap, Cambodia, November 2023

 (* 261)                 PURPLE HERON                    Ardea purpurea

CAMBODIA.               42       

Mainly freshwater bird found in extensive swamps and adjacent, flooded paddy fields; sometimes around mangroves and tidal estuaries. 90 cm. Range: Africa and Eurasia: generally uncommon but locally numerous resident throughout the Greater Sundras and east into parts of Wallacea.

PURPLE HERON

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023

(261)               PURPLE HERON            Ardea purpurea

AUSTRALIA                801

Found in trees, bushes and emergent vegetation fringing wetlands. Widespread throughout Europe, Africa, Asia to Indonesia; vagrant to Australia. 

 

PURPLE HERON

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(*  261)             PURPLE HERON           Areda purpurea

MALAYSIA                49  

Associated with brackish and freshwater wetlands. 80-90 cm. Resident and migrant in Peninsula Malaysia.

PURPLE HERON

Subspecies manilensis, photographed March 2017

(*  261)             PURPLE HERON           Areda purpurea

SRI LANKA              26

Found mainly in the vegetation of marshes, paddy fields and tanks; in reedy swamps and mangroves around lagoons. 78-90 cm. Rather common breeding resident in lowlands and ascends up to lower hills, but rare in hills.

PURPLE HERON

Photographed at Koshi Tappu, Nepal March 2017

(* 261)                    PURPLE HERON                Area purpurea

NEPAL                  71          

Found in dense reed beds in lakes and marshes. 78-90 cm. Widespread, locally fairly common, mainly resident and monsoon visitor.

PURPLE HERON

Photographed in Denpasar, Bali October 2016

(see  261)                 PURPLE HERON                    Ardea purpurea

INDONESIA (Bali)          (23)        

Mainly freshwater bird found in extensive swamps and adjacent, flooded paddy fields; sometimes around mangroves and tidal estuaries. 90 cm. Range: Africa and Eurasia: generally uncommon but locally numerous resident throughout the Greater Sundras and east into parts of Wallacea.

PURPLE HERON

261               PURPLE HERON            Ardea purpurea

South Africa     (23)

78-86 cm, 550-1200 g. Range eastern half of South Africa. Found in wetlands, particularly amongst sedges and reeds, rarely feeds in open.