Cinnamon Bittern

Ixobrychus cinnamomeus

Description

Ixobrychus cinnamomeus has the characteristics of a short neck and a large beak and is yellow in color. The height of this bird reaches 41 cm with a length of 38 cm with the general body color of red-brownish orange. As for the characteristics of an adult male, the upper body is chestnut brown, then the lower body is dark orange cinnamon with a black line in the middle and a whitish color on the side of the neck, while the female has a darker color with a striped upper body. lines and mottled and scribbled lower body.

Population Size

130.000 – 2.000.000 individu

Life Span

-

WEIGHT​

-

LENGTH

38 cm

Ca

Carnivore

Di

Diurnal

So

Solitary

Te

Terrestrial

Classification

KINGDOM

:

Animalia

PHYLUM

:

Chordata

CLASS

:

Aves

ORDER

:

Pelecaniformes

FAMILY

:

Ardeidae

GENUS

:

Ixobrychus

SPECIES

:

Ixobrychus cinnamomeus

Distribution

This species is a common resident in freshwater swamps and rice fields throughout the Greater Sunda.

Geography

Continent : Asia

Country : Spread areas are in the regions of India, China, Southeast Asia, Sulawesi, Greater Sunda and Nusa Tenggara.

Habits and Lifestyle

This species tends to move up in swamps, difficult to see, given their sneaky lifestyle, but tends to emerge at dusk. Most of these species are resident, but there are some birds in the northern part that migrate short distances

Lifestyle

Terrestrial and solitary

Biome

Swamps and rice fields

Climate Zone

Subtropical and tropical

Diet and Nutrition

This species usually forages in watery soils and marshes to prey on insects, fish and amphibians.

Diet : Carnivora

Mating Habits

This species lays 4 to 6 eggs. Breeds in reeds or in bushes.

Reproduction session : –

Incubation periods: –

Independent age : –

Baby name : –

Baby carrying : 4 – 6 eggs

Population

Population status : Least Concern (LC)

NE

DD

LC

NT

VU

EN

CR

EW

EX

Population number​

The population size of this species is very large, and therefore does not approach the threshold for Vulnerability under population size criteria (<10,000 adult individuals with estimated continuous decline of> 10% in ten years or three generations, or with defined population structure). For this reason, the species is evaluated as of Least Concern on the IUCN red list

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Reference

  1. MacKinnon, J. 1991 . Fields Guide to the Birds Of Java and Bali. Gadjah Mada University Press. Yogyakarta.
  2. Cinnamon Bittern on Wikipedia article 
  3. Ixobrychus cinnamomeus on The IUCN Red List site