Yellow bittern / Chinadommel (Ixobrychus sinensis)

Wikipedia: Yellow bittern Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Ixobrychus_sinensis_-_Chinese_Garden.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Least bitterns (Ixobrychus); Family Herons (Ardeidae)
General: The yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) is a small bittern. It is of Old World origins, breeding in the northern Indian Subcontinent, east to the Russian Far East, Japan and Indonesia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances. It has been recorded as a vagrant in Alaska and there is a single sighting in Britain, from Radipole Lake, Dorset on November 23, 1962 – however, the BOU have always considered this occurrence to be of uncertain provenance and currently it is not accepted onto the official British List. [more]