Published March 6, 2023 | Version v1
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Egretta garzetta

Description

**LITTLE EGRET Egretta garzetta

Range Biak, Yapen (a questionable specimen by von Rosenberg, J. Diamond in litt. 2021).

Status Occasional visitor. Widespread and regular austral visitor throughout the region, albeit rather sparse in northern Indonesian New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016). Until now unrecorded on the Teluk Cenderawasih Islands. 29 August 2015: five at the tsunami swamp (KDB, eBird checklist S25951144); singles 8 December 2016 (KDB), 20 August 2019 (S. Chatterjee, eBird checklist S59122782) and 26 August 2019 (P. Chaon, eBird checklist S59271786) at the same site.

Notes

Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ardeidae
Genus
Egretta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pelecaniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
garzetta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) sec. Bishop, 2023