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Zigzag heron or zigzag bittern (Zebrilus undulatus) Notes This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 03:24 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a species of wading bird in the heron family. It has a Nearctic distribution, breeding in Canada and the northern and central parts of the United States, and wintering in the U.S. Gulf Coast states, all of Florida into the Everglades, the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America.
Members of the genus Botaurus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in the monotypic genus Zebrilus, form a monophyletic group within the Ardeidae. Egrets do not form a biologically distinct group from herons, and tend to be named differently because they are mainly white or have decorative plumes ...
The least bittern was formerly placed in the genus Ixobrychus but when a molecular phylogenetic study of the heron family Ardeidae published in 2023 found that Ixobrychus was paraphyletic, Ixobrychus was merged into the genus Botaurus that had been introduced in 1819 by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens..
Agami heron: Agamia agami (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 6 Zigzag heron: Zebrilus undulatus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 7 Eurasian bittern: Botaurus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) 8 Australasian bittern: Botaurus poiciloptilus (Wagler, 1827) 9 American bittern: Botaurus lentiginosus (Rackett, 1813) 10 Pinnated bittern: Botaurus pinnatus (Wagler, 1829) 11 Stripe-backed ...
Botaurus is a genus of bitterns, a group of wading birds in the heron family Ardeidae. ... In describing the Eurasian bittern Stephens wrote: "At this period the male ...
The Eurasian bittern or great bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is a wading bird in the bittern subfamily (Botaurinae) of the heron family Ardeidae.There are two subspecies, the northern race (B. s. stellaris) breeding in parts of Europe and across the Palearctic, as well as on the northern coast of Africa, while the southern race (B. s. capensis) is endemic to parts of southern Africa.
The pinnated bittern (Botaurus pinnatus), also known as the South American bittern, is a large member of the heron family (Ardeidae) found in the New World tropics. Like the other Botaurus bitterns, its plumage is mostly buffy-brown and cryptically patterned. Though it is a widespread species, it is rarely seen – presumably due to its ...