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Ardea goliath

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[edit] Distribution

Africa, possibly also in India. Breeds widely but discontinuously across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and Somalia and south to eastern South Africa. Has been recorded on Madagascar. There are also occasional records from the Nile Valley especially Lake Nasser, more regularly on the Red Sea coasts of Egypt and Arabia but rare north to the Gulf of Aqaba and has also been reported from Kuwait, Syria and the Hula Swamp in Israel. Formerly occurred in the marshes of southern Iraq but current status there is unknown. Rarely seen and little-known further east but recorded from coastal Iran and Pakistan to Bagladesh and south to Sri Lanka.

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Slow-flowing rivers, lakes and swamps, also estuaries, mangroves and mudflats

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[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages