JAVAN POND HERON

Photographed on West Island, Cocos,  December 2018

(*815)                   JAVAN POND-HERON            Ardeola speciosa

AUSTRALIA               764

Found in freshwater marshes, grasslands, ponds with well-vegetated fringes and occasionally coastal mudflats. 45 cm. Distribution: parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Greater and Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi and Mindanao.  

INDIAN POND HERON

Photographed March 2017

(*  998)                  INDIAN POND HERON                Ardeola grayii

SRI LANKA               16

Found on the edges of all types of freshwater wetlands, coastal lagoons and marshes. 42-45 cm. Very common breeding resident throughout the island, also large number of winter migrants.

INDIAN POND HERON

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, March 2017

998                  INDIAN POND HERON                Ardeola grayii

NEPAL                  56

Found in marshes, flooded paddy fields, lakes, village tanks, streams and ditches. 42-45 cm. Common and widespread resident.

CHINESE POND HERON

Photographed on Cocos Isand December 2016

941          CHINESE POND HERON                Ardeola bacchus                                             

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)              668

Found in fresh and saltwater wetlands and ponds in China and adjacent temperate and subtropical East Asia. 47 cm.