Appearance
The Chinese pond heron is typically 47 cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is red, blue and white during breeding season, and greyish-brown and flecked with white at other times.
Distribution
It is found in shallow fresh and salt water wetlands and ponds in China and adjacent temperate and subtropical East Asia. Essentially a lowland bird, its range is delimited by the subarctic regions in the north, and by the mountain ranges in the west and south.
Status
It is fairly common and not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
Reproduction
The Chinese pond heron often nests in mixed-species heronries. It lays a clutch of 3–6 blue-green eggs.
Food
Its food consists of insects, fish, and crustaceans.References:
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