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Revision as of 19:46, 4 September 2007
- Ixobrychus cinnamomeus
Identification
Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)
AKA Chestnut Bittern
Range:
Breeds in Sakhalin and the Russian Far East, Korea and throughout much of eastern and southern China, Indochina, Thailand and Malaysia and on Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi. Alco occurs in Burma, west to north-west India and south through the Indian Subcontinent to Sri Lanka.
A summer visitor to breeding range present late April-September. Winters in southern China, Taiwan, Indochina, Thailand and Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Recorded as a vagrant in Burma but there is one extraordinary and apparently valid record in Europe. An immature female was caught at Piemonte in northern Italy in November 1912.
Habitat:
Reedswamps and often dry grassland, prefers drier habitats than Little Bittern but also seen by ponds and rivers.
