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Black-backed Bittern
Botaurus dubius(Mathews, 1912)
At a glance
The Black-backed Bittern is a medium-sized bird, about 25–36 cm long, listed as Least Concern and native to Australia.
- Size
- 25–36 cm
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
- Origin
- Native
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
What does a Black-backed Bittern look like?
The Black-backed Bittern is a medium-sized bird, about 25–36 cm long and weighing 60–120 g.
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
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
What does a Black-backed Bittern eat?
The Black-backed Bittern feeds on mainly small fish, frogs and and aquatic invertebrates such as dragonflies and water beetles., usually foraging in solitary stalker; stand-and-wait predator in dense aquatic vegetation..
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