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Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (''Ixobrychus eurhythmus'') is a small
It breeds in
bittern
Bitterns are birds belonging to the subfamily Botaurinae of the heron family Ardeidae. Bitterns tend to be shorter-necked and more secretive than other members of the family. They were called ''hæferblæte'' in Old English; the word "bittern" ...
(birds of the subfamily Botaurinae). It is named after Leopold von Schrenck
Peter Leopold von Schrenck (russian: Леопольд Иванович фон Шренк; 1826 – 8 January 1894) was a Russian zoologist, geographer and ethnographer. Biography
Schrenck came from a Baltic German family, and was born and b ...
, the 19th-century Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
n naturalist.
Description
The male is uniformly chestnut above, and buff below and on the wingcovert feather
A covert feather or tectrix on a bird is one of a set of feathers, called coverts (or ''tectrices''), which, as the name implies, cover other feathers. The coverts help to smooth airflow over the wings and tail. Ear coverts
The ear coverts are sm ...
s. The female and juvenile are chestnut all over with white speckles above, and white streaks below. When in flight, it shows black flight feathers and tail. It is a small species at in length, with a short neck, longish yellow beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for eating, preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food ...
and yellow legs.
Distribution and habitat
It breeds in China
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and Siberia
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from March to July, and Japan
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from May to August. It winters in Indonesia
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, the Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, Singapore
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, Laos
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, passing through the rest of Southeast Asia
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. It is an exceptionally rare vagrant as far west as Europe, with a single sighting in Italy in 1912.
Behaviour and ecology
Von Schrenck's bittern breeds inreed bed
A reedbed or reed bed is a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and
estuaries. Reedbeds are part of a succession from young reeds colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground. As ...
s and tends to emerge at dusk to forage for prey.
Conservation
Widespread throughout its large range, Von Schrenck's bittern has been assessed asleast concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...
on the IUCN Red List
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.
References
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* {{Taxonbar , from=Q888547Von Schrenck's bittern
Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (''Ixobrychus eurhythmus'') is a small bittern (birds of the subfamily Botaurinae). It is named after Leopold von Schrenck, the 19th-century Russian naturalist.
Description
The male is uniformly chest ...
Von Schrenck's bittern
Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (''Ixobrychus eurhythmus'') is a small bittern (birds of the subfamily Botaurinae). It is named after Leopold von Schrenck, the 19th-century Russian naturalist.
Description
The male is uniformly chest ...
Birds of East Asia
Von Schrenck's bittern
Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (''Ixobrychus eurhythmus'') is a small bittern (birds of the subfamily Botaurinae). It is named after Leopold von Schrenck, the 19th-century Russian naturalist.
Description
The male is uniformly chest ...