White-faced Heron (juvenile)

Description:

Juvenile White-faced Herons are "paler and duller than the adult[s], with brown grey shading on forehead and sides of head, making these features less white than in the adult. There is a narrow pink buff throat line. The underparts are brown grey. The chest is buff pink, without the chestnut of the adult. Immature birds lack lanceolate plumes on either their chest or back." (Heron Conservation - https://www.heronconservation.org/herons... )

Habitat:

Perched in the tree near a small lake on a hot afternoon, Kingaroy, QLD.

Notes:

First time seeing a juvenile! There were actually two of them together in the tree. There was an adult around as well but I never saw them altogether. In the video it is doing something with its throat: https://youtu.be/TYBCg_BtnM4 I'm not sure what it's doing so if anyone has any ideas please let me know.