Javan Pond Heron

Javan Pond Heron

Taxobox
name = Javan Pond Heron


image_caption = breeding plumage
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref =IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=49592|title=Ardeola speciosa|downloaded=26 November 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Ciconiiformes
familia = Ardeidae
genus = "Ardeola"
species = "A. speciosa"
binomial = "Ardeola speciosa"
binomial_authority = Horsfield, 1821

The Javan Pond Heron, "Ardeola speciosa" is a wading bird of the heron family , found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs.

The Javan Pond Heron is typically 45 cm 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 similar to that of the the Chinese and Indian Pond Herons and is 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.

References

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3734&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=49592 IUCN Red List]


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