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Butorides striata
Adults have a blue-grey back and wings, white underparts, a black cap and short yellow legs. Juveniles are browner above and streaked below. These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, but are easier to see than many small heron species. They mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic insects. [Wikipedia]
Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America.
Socozinho [Brazil]
Spotted on Mar 16, 2009
Submitted on Nov 23, 2012
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