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  1. Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    A Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) 栗葦鳽 cleaning itself for a moment while in the middle of morning hunting
  2. Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    Full body view of Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) 栗葦鳽. Usually they were quite skittish but somehow, this one doesn't scared by human at all, even several joggers running past by it still remain at same spot. I was just about 3 meters away.
  3. Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    Cinnamon Bittern, Borneo

    * Thanks for all previous posts Likes and Comments * It is not often seeing this Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) 栗葦鳽 out in open and at close distance.
  4. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern camouflage itself with the surrounding. You may not see the camouflage as it is closeup picture. But it was very difficult to track the bird with naked eye. The picture was taken in western Chitwan. Cinnamon bittern is summer visitor and more frequent in the altitude lower than...
  5. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    A summer visitor to my patch, always flies by in low light dawn/dusk, so image a bit grainy
  6. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    The Bittern was hiding under the covering and had a keen eye on my movements. The moment I took s step forward, I shook off and flew away !
  7. Cinnamon Bittern or Chestnut Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

    Cinnamon Bittern or Chestnut Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

    Legnth : 38-40cm
  8. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

  9. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    It looks as if he is doing his best immitation of a Kiwi in this shot. I think this is the same individual that I've photographed before. He has a certain section of the river staked out as his territory and is fairly bold for a bittern as most others fly off as soon as I get near them...
  10. Cinnamon Bittern with snack

    Cinnamon Bittern with snack

    These are usually skittish birds either dashing into the bush or flying off when disturbed (which means when they see my camera) but this guy was focused on catching a meal so I was able to get several shots of him stalking, catching (this one) and eating his fish for lunch before he ducked back...
  11. Cinnamon Bittern in Okinawa

    Cinnamon Bittern in Okinawa

    A male....
  12. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    Taken in the late afternoon from near the swimming pool at the Beira Mar Hotel.
  13. Cinnamon Bittern

    Cinnamon Bittern

    Always see them flying around the swamps area and quite lucky got one perched quite near to me and allowed me to get few shots.
  14. Cinnamon Bittern.

    Cinnamon Bittern.

    Had gone to-day at 1.03pm for birding in one of my patchs and the weather was still overcast and just heard a bird singing and was hoping to see the bird-suddenly this chap parked him self about 25 feet away on a small tree.I took a few shots and then relised that a small branch was causing a...
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