- White-backed Night-heron
Taxobox
name = White-backed Night-heron
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Aves
ordo =Ciconiiformes
familia =Ardeidae
genus = "Gorsachius "
species = "G. leuconotus"
binomial = "Gorsachius leuconotus"
binomial_authority = (Wagler, 1827)
synonyms = The White-backed Night-heron ("Gorsachius leuconotus") is a species ofheron in theArdeidae family.It is found inAngola ,Benin ,Botswana ,Burkina Faso ,Cameroon ,Republic of the Congo ,Democratic Republic of the Congo ,Ivory Coast ,Eritrea ,Ethiopia ,Gabon ,Gambia ,Ghana ,Guinea-Bissau ,Kenya ,Liberia ,Malawi ,Mali ,Mauritania ,Mozambique ,Namibia ,Niger ,Nigeria ,Rwanda ,Senegal ,Sierra Leone ,South Africa ,Sudan ,Swaziland ,Tanzania ,Togo ,Uganda ,Zambia , andZimbabwe .ource
* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/49600/all Gorsachius leuconotus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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