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Gretchen

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Hi,

I'm working from clearer to less clear ids! Here are two flying birds, which I think may be herons. These were seen by my husband, so there isn't much more to say about them, except they were seen near water, in rural Nanchang. I'm not very good at identifying flying birds :-C

Thanks for your help!
 

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I agree with both. Reasonably confident for 1, with the pale throat stripe (vs pale stripe on the side of the neck and speckled throat and breast for black bittern, plus leg color of course).
 
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Thanks very much Thibauld and Jeff! I have actually seen a few herons looking like the first one, and so am quite interested to have that one identified. (Until the other day, I had totally ignored the possible presence of striated herons.) The second was more what I had guessed. This should help me to identify those birds which I don't seem to see until we've inadvertently flushed them!
 
There's an obvious size difference between the two, Gretchen, but of course that can't really be determined easily from photos.
 
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