Malay yellow heron [1] ( lat. Ardeola speciosa ) - a bird of the heron family .
| Malay yellow heron |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
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| International scientific name |
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Ardeola speciosa
Horsfield , 1821 |
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 All year round Only in winter |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22697138 |
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Malay yellow heron is a small, stocky heron with a maximum length of 45 cm. In winter outfit, head with stripes of olive-brown or yellow-brown. The beak is yellow, lighter on the upper side, the base is bluish. The back is brown, the tail and wings are white. Legs are pale greenish-yellow. In general, the bird is very similar to a white heron or an Indian yellow heron . In the mating season, birds have a golden yellow head, neck and crest. At the bottom of the neck, red feathers form a collar, and elongated gray-black feathers of the back stretch to the end of the tail. Female and male are similar. Young birds look like sexually mature birds in a winter outfit.
Malay yellow heron inhabits the mangrove swamps of Southeast Asia . Native view A. s. speciosa lives in Indonesia , primarily in Bali and Java , as well as in the Philippines . Subspecies A. s. continentalis (Salomonsen, 1933) lives in Central Thailand , Myanmar , southern Vietnam and Cambodia . It has a longer beak and wings than A. s. speciosa .
She feeds on small fish , crustaceans and insects . To catch them, she patiently, almost motionlessly waits, and then quickly stabs with her beak.
Malay yellow heron nests from June to September. Moreover, it nests in small colonies, often together with other species of herons. It is considered a migratory bird.
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 23. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- James A. Kushlan, James A. Hancock: The Herons. Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-19-854981-4
