Birds of the World

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Genus: Ixobrychus (9 species)


Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) Range: OR, PAL: Pakistan and Maldives through se, e Asia to e China, Ryukyu Is. (s Japan), s to Philippines and w, c, Indonesian Arch. Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Black-backed Bittern (Ixobrychus dubius) Range: AU: patchily in sc, nc, se New Guinea and far sw WA, ne WA to s VIC (sw, n, e Australia) McKellar Pond, McKellar, ACT, Australia
Photograph by David Cook Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Von Schrenck's Bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus) Range: PAL: se Siberia, Korean Pen., Japan and e China
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) Range: NA, MA, SA: e, sw USA to se Brazil Green Cay Nature Center, Delray Beach, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis australis) Range: OR, AU: widespread Mooney Mooney Creek, NSW, Australia
Photograph by Greg B. Miles Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis) Immature Range: OR, AU: widespread Sumatra, Indonesia
Photograph by Vinchel Budihardjo © All Rights Reserved.


Stripe-backed Bittern (Ixobrychus involucris) Range: SA: Colombia to Suriname, s Bolivia and s Brazil to c Chile and c Argentina Sauce de Portezuelo, Maldonado, Uruguay
Photograph by Remco Douma © All Rights Reserved.


Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) Range: PAL, AF: s, c Europe to c Asia, nw India and Africa Lesvoz, Greece
Photograph by Mark S. Jobling Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) Range: PAL, IO, OR: Oman, Inner Is. (ne Seychelles), Pakistan and Sri Lanka through se Russia and Japan s to se Asia, Indonesian Arch., Philippines to w Micronesia Bueng Boraphet, Nahkon Sawon, Thailand
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Dwarf Bittern (Ixobrychus sturmii) Range: AF: widespread Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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