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Subspecies and Distribution.
Ardea melanocephalaAfrica from S Sahara to Ethiopia and S. Africa. | ||||||||||
Descriptive notes.95 cm; Somewhat variable, wings and back can be much paler, highlighting black of head and neck, extent of white varies, some birds lacking white spots on foreneck. Others with no white at all.Juvenile has white underparts and brownish grey neck. HabitatTypically found in damp, open pastureland and sometimes far from water. Also margins of rivers and lakes, coastal areas and forest clearings.Food and FeedingVertebrates and invertebrates, mostly terrestrial, insects, rodents, lizards, snakes, frogs, birds, crabs, fish also scavenges.Passive feeder, partially nocturnal, generally solitary. Breeding.During the rains session, colonial in small mixed colonies, sometimes 200 nests.Nest of sticks usually high in tree, less often in reedbeds or on ground. 2-6 eggs, incubation 25 days, chicks have pale grey down, fledging 50 days, juvenil independent at 60days. Movements.Sedentary in equatorial zone elsewhere migratoryMigrate to drier zones during rains, moving into Sudan vegrant to Algeria, SW Europe, Oman, Madagascar. May commute over 30 km between feeding grounds and roost. Status and ConservationNot globally threatend.Widespread and common. aIsrael.In Israel subspecies Ardea melanocephala, accidental visitor, observed and photographed at Eilat by Shirihai. |
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