Javan Pond Heron
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| Ardeola speciosa Horsfield, 1821 |
The Javan Pond Heron, Ardeola speciosa is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs.
The Javan Pond Heron is typically 45cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is orange, slaty and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. The non-breeding plumage is like the Chinese and Indian pond herons', virtually indistinguishable in the field. It breeds from June to September. It is migratory.
Widespread throughout its large range, the Javan Pond Heron is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Ardeola speciosa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 26 November 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
