YELLOW BITTERN | LONG-NOSED BITTERN | Ixobrychus sinensis | Call

YELLOW BITTERN (CHINESE LITTLE or LONG-NOSED BITTERN) Ixobrychus sinensis

Shoot of Yellow Bittern call

Location: Sultanpur wetland, Navsari
Photographer: Mehul Patel

yellow Bittern with short neck and longish bill.
male is uniformly dull yellow above and buff below. The head and neck are chestnut, with a black crown. The female's crown, neck and breast are streaked brown, and the juvenile is like the female but heavily streaked brown below, and mottled with buff above. Yellow bitterns feed on insects, fish and amphibians.

Habitat: Reedbeds, scrub and flooded peddyfield