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- Notes - (Top left) Yellow Bittern Scientific name: Ixobrychus sinensis sinensis Local name: Bakaw-tumana Family: Ardeidae Other common names: Chinese Little/Long nosed Bittern Conservation status: LC (Least Concern) Male: Above earthy brown slightly tinged with rufous specially on the scapulars; wing-coverts clay-brown; edge of wing, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white; alula, primary-coverts and quills black slightly shaded with ashy; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts grey; the latter somewhat darker; tail-feather, crown and nape black; sides of face, ear-coverts and sies of neck vinous; throat white, mesially streaked with yellowish buff like the rest of under surfaces; thighs more tawny rufous; on each side of upper breast a patch of dependent feathers of a blackish ground with yellowish buff margins. Eyelids and facial skin green; upper mandible dark brown on the culmen and pinkish brown on the margins; lower mandible pinkish brown, turning green towards the tip; toes and tibia-tarsal joint pale-yellow; tarsus dull flesh-colour; iris yellow. Wing, 124; tail, 38; culmen, 51; tarsus, 44; middle toe with claw, 44-50. Fenale: The crown, ear-coverts, and sides of face, are the same as the male. Her back is more rufous above, with yellowish buff margins, and her mesial lines on the under surface of the body, are more strongly indicated by tawny buff centres to the feathers of the throat and fore neck. Upper mandible dark brown, lower one and feet greenish yellow. Wing, 132; tail, 41; culmen, 53; tarsus, 51. This specie is found in Botel, Tobago, Calayan, Luzon, Mindanao, Sulu, Tablas, and extremely abundant about Lake Naujan in Mindoro. It comes out on the mud-flats to feed, but promptly takes refuge among the reeds if disturbed. Also widely distributed over Japan, China and Korea, westward of India, through Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Celebes. A large range of individual variation exist but it cannot be defined racially; dark forms are known from the Andamans and China; and some indistinguishable forms are found also from Guam an Truk. (Top right) Cinnamon Bittern (juvenile) Scientific name: Ixobrychus cinnamomeus Local name: Bakaw-kanela, Lapay; Yohong Pula (Vis) Family: Ardeidae Conservation status: LC (Least Concern) (Bottom left and right) Green herons, adult and juvenile Scientific name: Butorides striatus Family: Ardeidae Local name: Bakaw, Bakaw Itim; Yoho (Vis) Other common names: Green Backed-Heron (virescens); Striated Heron (striatus); Lava/Galapagos Heron (sundevalli); Little (Green) Heron (Asia); Red/Mangrove Heron, Red Mangrove bittern (rogersi) Conservation status: LC (Least Concern)
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