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Carefully Study This Birds Lifestyle by afriks(m): 1:35am On Aug 10, 2015 |
Hi guys, Am talking about a reef heron. reef herons are birds with long beak, birds with long neck(mostly all Heron birds by the way) NICKNAME: Egretta Sacra HABITAT: Reef herons dominate parts of Asia continents South of the Himalayas, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Tasmania, Polynesia e.t.c COLOUR: It has slaty grey (darker above, lighter below) and tinged brown colour. Narrow white streak on chin and throat. Long plumes on lower neck and back during courtship. DIET: This birds normally hunt alone for tidal fish, crustaceans, mollusc after which they all gather in hundreds same branch/nest at dusk. BREED: Both sexes during breeding season snap their beak together plus a guttural croak. They breed almost throughout the year in mangroves, palms, crevice, caves, vegetation in cliffs, scrubs, jungle, human artefacts etc. They form their nest with stick and leaves laying 2 to 3 pale greenish blue eggs. Both sexes incubate the egg until 28 days and tends their young. the young fledge after 5-6 weeks Also read : Great white heron, Grey heron, Black-crowned night heron, Snowy egret |
Re: Carefully Study This Birds Lifestyle by agabaI23(m): 1:57am On Aug 10, 2015 |
Couldn't get close enough. Got this yesterday. If you zoom the pic, you will see.
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