striated heron
mangrove heron
little heron
butorides striata latin

Striated Herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits.

Common Moorhens and Striated Herons also breed on the island.

A few mornings later Andrew was further incensed by the sight of a woman plucking a striated heron for breakfast.

Response: This is a juvenile striated heron, Butorides striata.

This feeding method has led some to title the green and closely related Striated Heron as among the world's most intelligent birds.

Striated Herons (Butorides striatus) use bait to catch fish.

Mystery bird: Striated heron, Butorides striata 5.

Birds include breeding waterbirds such as Striated Heron and Reed Cormorant and large flocks of others during migration.

Bird species such as Black swans, the Striated Heron, Australian Bustard and Bush Stone-curlew can be found along the river's banks.

It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the Striated Heron ('Butorides striata'), and together they were called "Green-backed Heron".

There are more than 100 species of birds in the area such as Striated Heron, Pacific Reef Heron, Little Egret and others.

Items used may be man made, such as bread; alternatively Striated Herons in the Amazon have been watched repeatedly dropping seeds, insects, flowers and leaves into the water to catch fish.

The Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron.

Striated Heron, Butorides striata - Widespread throughout the Old World tropics and in South America (Note that the grammatical gender of the specific name has been corrected from striatus)

Significantly, Feuilley in 1705 did not mention these birds, and only in the second half of the 18th century are herons on Réunion referred to again, with the Striated Heron being the only species found, but "very rare".

It contains three similar species, the Green Heron or Green-backed Heron, Butorides virescens, the Lava Heron (Butorides sundevalli), and the Striated Heron, Butorides striatus.

Widespread and generally common, the Striated Heron is classified as a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN; this holds true whether the Lava Heron is included in B. striata or not.

Locally extinct land birds found were Striated Heron, Spotless Crake, Polynesian Ground Dove, Marquesan Imperial Pigeon, Polynesian Imperial Pigeon, and Tahiti Reed Warbler.

The significance of this behavior is completely unknown: While such movements occur in many other nesting birds where they seem to compact the nest, move the eggs, or dislodge parasites, neither seems to have been the case in this particular Striated Heron.

Birds recorded from the reserve include the Fulvous Whistling Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Osprey, Wattled Jacana, Black-necked Stilt, Cocoi Heron, Striated Heron, Anhinga and Neotropic Cormorant.

Interestingly, the striated heron was thought to be conspecific with the closely related North American green heron, B. virescens, and the lava heron, B. sundevalli, of the Galápagos Islands - a group that was collectively known as the green-backed herons.

Birds in these wet habitats include Goliath Heron, Purple Heron, Cattle Egret, Striated Heron, Western Reef Heron, Greater Flamingo, Lesser Flamingo, African Spoonbill, and African Sacred Ibis.

The resident birds seen here include Little Cormorant, Spot-billed Pelican, Little Grebe, Common Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, White-breasted Kingfisher, Little Green or Striated Heron, Pond Heron and Red-wattled Lapwing.

Finally, a single bone of the Striated Heron (Butorides striata) was found on Lakeba; the species does not occur there today, but unless more bones are found it is not sure that it had a self-sustaining population on this island rather than being merely an occasional visitor.

The Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron.

Little herons squawked in the shallows while chasing their supper.

Some kingfishers, giving a sharp whistle, and some little herons, white as snow, immediately flew away.

"And what could a fiver do that my handy little Heron could not, eh, milady?"

The scientific name comes from Latin ardeola, little heron, and ralloides, Latin rallus, a rail and Greek -oides, resembling.

The Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron.