BirdUp · Species
Black-backed Bittern
Botaurus dubius(Mathews, 1912)
Least ConcernNative
- Conservation
- Least Concern
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The black-backed bittern, also known as the black-backed least bittern or Australian little bittern, is a little-known species of heron in the family Ardeidae found in Australia and vagrant to southern New Guinea. Formerly lumped with the little bittern, it is one of the smallest herons in the world. This species was formerly placed in the genus Ixobrychus.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Patchily in south-west WA, north WA to south VIC (south-west, north and east Australia); also south-central, north-central and south-east New Guinea.
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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