Published March 6, 2023
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Egretta garzetta
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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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Identifiers
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