Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Butorides striata |
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STRIATED HERON Butorides striata View in CoL #
Local name Man Posow (Sansundi).
Range B. s. papuensis Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Yapen.
Status Resident. Obtained by two collectors including Ripley ( Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939). Sparsely distributed and infrequently seen, mainly in coastal mangroves, very rarely on mudflats. 19 January 1995: seen on north coast of Biak (D. Holmes unpubl.). Recently small numbers (1‒3) fairly regularly recorded at the tsunami swamp.
Breeding Ripley noted an empty nest on a small mangrove island off Korrido, Supiori.
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