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Ardeola speciosa
It is typically 45 cm long, with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, and yellow eyes and legs. In the breeding season it is orange, slaty and white, and out of the breeding season brown and flecked with white. the non-breeding plumage is virtually indistinguishable in the field from that of the Chinese and Indian pond herons (Wikipedia, general species account). The Javan pond heron is typically 45 cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. (Wikipedia, general species account).
The Javan pond heron is a wading bird of the heron family found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet is insects, fish and crabs (Wikipedia, general species account). The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs. Its overall colour is orange, slaty and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. (Wikipedia, general species account).