Yellow bittern
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The yellow bittern is a small bittern of Old World origins that breeds in the northern Indian subcontinent, east to the Russian Far East, Japan, and Indonesia. It is mainly a resident bird, but some n
Ixobrychus sinensis Chinese Garden
Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
1）Parent locates child birds without chirp (Chiba pref. Japan)
2）Child birds notice parent then exit from thicket
Botaurus
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Botaurus is a genus of bitterns, a group of wading birds from the heron family Ardeidae. The genus includes species that were previously placed in the genus Ixobrychus.
Yellow bittern
…heron family Ardeidae published in 2023 found that Ixobrychus was paraphyletic, and to create monophyletic genera, Ixobrychus was merged into the genus Botaurus that had been introduced in 1819 by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens. The genus name Botaurus is Medieval Latin for a bittern. The specific…
Botaurus lentiginosus 28079
Eurasian Bittern Torrile Italy 4528
Botaurus poiciloptilus
American Bittern in California