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 Binominal Name: Ardeola bacchus  Common Name:Chinese pond heron The Chinese pond heron is long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is red, blue and white during breeding season, and greyish-brown and flecked with white at other times. It is found in shallow fresh and salt water  wetlands  and  ponds  in  China  and adjacent  temperate  and  subtropical   East Asia . Essentially a lowland bird, its range is delimited by the  subarctic  regions in the north, and by the mountain ranges in the west and south. Its food consists of insects, fish, and crustaceans. The Chinese pond heron often nests in mixed-species heronries. It lays a clutch of 3–6 blue-green eggs.
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