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Butorides striata
This bird is exceptional, used popcorn to fish guppies into the lake from the botanical garden, are not captive, take advantage of local lakes to eat and sleep without common predators.
Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron. Striated herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits.
Spotted on Jul 14, 2015
Submitted on Jul 14, 2015
4 Comments
ok, understood, I have only 12 photos, so I'm on time. thank you very much
Weimar, if you look at your spotting creation page - just click on "edit this spotting" - you will see reference links fields including one for wikipedia so you just put it there. The description field is for describing what you have photographed using information which is not obvious from a photograph, such as the size, actions, sounds made, etc. These all help to get an accurate identification, especially in cases where the organism is either not identified at all or identified incorrectly, both of which happen very frequently.
mmmmm, ok clear to me, I will not put a description from Wikipedia, I see no sense, for me this is important. but I follow the FAQ from now on.
Hi Weimar, nice picture.
Please refer to our FAQs section http://www.projectnoah.org/faq for information on what to put in the various fields. Firstly, we do not want to see endless copies of text from wikipedia or other sources, we have reference links on each spotting for that purpose. Secondly, as this is a database program, the habitat field should state the specific habitat where the spotting was made, not just a generalised habitat which the species would be expected to be found in. We want to be able to track changes of habitat which may occur due to factors such as human interference or climate change, etc.