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Introduction
Cinnamon night heron Classification (COI) Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subembr. Vertebrata Class Aves Order Pelecaniformes Family Ardeidae Genus Nycticorax Binomial name (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.), the binomial name, or binomial, comes from…) Nycticorax caledonicus
Gmelin, 1789 Geographical distribution IUCN conservation status:
LC: Minor concern
Synonymes Area caledonia (Gmelin, 1789)
The Cinnamon Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) is a species (In the life sciences, the species (from the Latin species, “type”…) of bird (A bird (or class of Aves) is a tetrapod animal belonging to the phylum of…) of the family Ardeidae which is found in Oceania (Oceania is a vast region bringing together territories located in the ocean…) and in the South-East (The south-east is the direction halfway between the southern and eastern cardinal points. The southeast is…) Asian.
Systematic
Six subspecies are recognized:
N. c. caledonicus, Gmelin, 1789 N. c. crassirostris, , Vigors, 1839 (extinct, occurred in the Bonin Islands) N. c. manillensis, Vigors, 1831 N. c. mandibularis, Ogilvie-Grant, 1888 N. c. Hill, Mathews, 1912 N. c. pelewensis , Mathews ,
Habitat
This night heron frequents a wide variety of habitats. It generally feeds in stagnant water, or with a weak current, and of shallow depth.
Distribution
The Cinnamon Night Heron nests in New Caledonia (New Caledonia is an archipelago of Oceania located in the Pacific Ocean…), in the Philippines (The Republic of the Philippines is a country made up of an archipelago of…) , in Indonesia (Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (in Indonesian Republik…), in Palau (Les Palau, in long form Republic of Palau, in paluan Belau /bÉ™.lÉ‘ÊŠ/…), in Micronesia, on the archipelago (An archipelago is a group of islands relatively close to each other. The proximity…) Bismarck, in the Solomon Islands, in Australia (Australia (officially Commonwealth of Australia) is a country of…) and in New Zealand (New Zealand is a country in Oceania, in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean,…). It resides permanently throughout its entire range (Aires (in Spanish, Airs) is a domestic airline of Colombia.) nesting, but its wintering grounds are somewhat more extensive.
Bibliography
(en) Kushlan, James A. and James A. Hancock, Herons, Oxford University Press, New York (New York, in English New York City (officially, City of New York) to distinguish it from…), 2005, 433 pp.
Nesting
It is very gregarious and nests in colonies whose size varies between 200 and 3000 birds, sometimes in the company of other herons, spoonbills, cormorants, or ibises. The nest can be placed up to 20 meters high in a tree. in…), in a large shrub, in the mangrove (The mangrove is an ecosystem including a group of plants mainly…) or on the ground. The nest is made of a loose assembly of sticks. The eggs are numbered from 2 to 5.
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