Eurasian Bittern vs Réunion Night-Heron

Botaurus stellaris مقارنةً بـ Nycticorax duboisi

Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Eurasian Bittern Réunion Night-Heron
الاسم العلمي Botaurus stellaris Nycticorax duboisi
الرتبة Pelecaniformes Pelecaniformes
الفصيلة Ardeidae Ardeidae
حالة الحفاظ Least Concern Extinct
الطول
طول الجناح 64,8 cm (25.5 in)
الوزن 1264,0 g (44.59 oz)
النظام الغذائي -- --
عدد البيض في الوضع 1-7 --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

Eurasian Bittern only

بلا

Réunion Night-Heron only

بلا

حالة الحفاظ

Least Concern

Eurasian Bittern

Extinct

Réunion Night-Heron

About These Birds

Eurasian Bittern

The Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a large, secretive heron of the family Ardeidae, native to wetlands across the Palearctic from Europe and North Africa east across Asia to Japan and the Russian Far East. Adults are heavily streaked in brown, buff, and black, producing a cryptic pattern that allows perfect concealment in reedbeds. When alarmed, the bird adopts a characteristic freeze posture with the bill pointed skyward and the neck stretched upward, effectively mimicking a stand of reeds. Adults …

Réunion Night-Heron

The Réunion Night-Heron (Nycticorax duboisi) is an extinct species of night-heron belonging to the family Ardeidae, formerly endemic to the island of Réunion in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The species is known only from a brief historical description by the early European traveler Dubois, who visited Réunion in 1671–1672 and described a large, gray-colored bird with a white belly that was hunted and eaten by settlers. No specimens are known to exist in museum collections, and no skeletal remains have …

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