Striated Heron
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| Butorides striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
The Striated Heron Butorides striatus also known as Mangrove Heron or Little Heron, is a small heron.
Adults have a blue-grey back and wings, white underparts, a black cap and short yellow legs. Juveniles are browner above and streaked below.
Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America. They are mostly non-migratory. They nest in a platform of sticks often in shrubs or trees, sometimes on the ground, often near water, laying 3-5 eggs.
These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, but are easier to see than many small heron species. They mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic insects.
They sometimes use bait, dropping a feather or leaf carefully on the water surface and picking fish that visit it.
This bird is often considered to be conspecific with the closely related North American species, the Green Heron.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2005). Butorides striata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Butorides striatus (TSN 174798). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 9 February 2006.
- Walsh J. F., J. Grunewald, and B. Grunewald. 1985. Green-backed Herons (Butorides striatus) possibly using a lure and using apparent bait. J. Orn. 126:439-442.
- Norris, D. 1975. Green Heron (Butorides virescens) uses feather lure for fishing. Am. Birds 29:652-654.
- Boswall, J. 1983. Tool-using and related behavior in birds: more notes. Avicult. Mag. 89: 94-108.
- Robinson, S.K. 1994 Use of bait and lures by Green-backed Herons in Amazonian Peru.-Wilson Bull., 106(3):569-571
Categories: Least Concern species | Butorides | Birds of Guyana | Birds of Asia | Birds of Trinidad and Tobago | Birds of Pakistan | Birds of India | Birds of Sri Lanka | Birds of China | Birds of Korea | Birds of Japan | Birds of Southeast Asia | Birds of Bangladesh | Birds of Myanmar | Birds of Vietnam | Birds of Cambodia | Birds of Thailand | Birds of Malaysia | Birds of Singapore | Birds of Brunei | Birds of Indonesia | Birds of the Philippines | Birds of Western Australia
