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Ardeola bacchus (Bonaparte, 1855) Family: herons Order: Ciconiiformes print version
Chinese pond-heron Crabier chinois Garcilla china Bacchusreiher
Migration: partial intracontinental

Verbreitungskarte von Ardeola bacchus Indian birds sedentary, with some local movements. N populations migratory: Chinese birds leave breeding grounds in Sept/Oct, returning in Mar/Apr; occurs in Malay Peninsula Sept- Apr, and in Borneo Sept-Feb. Occasional in Taiwan; vagrant to USSR and South Korea; single adult in Norway, autumn 1973.   (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1992)


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(Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel)