Chinese Pond Heron

Description:

The Chinese Pond Heron is typically 47 cm (18.5 in) 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.

Habitat:

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.

Notes:

I spotted this around Crocodile Lake in the middle of Cat Tien National Park.