WHITE BELLIED HERON
The white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis), also known as
the imperial heron or great white-bellied heron, is a species of large heron found in the
foothills of the eastern Himalayas in India, northeastern Bangladesh, Burma and Bhutan.
This large heron is plain dark
grey above with a long neck. The crown is dark and there are no black stripes
on the neck as in the grey heron.
In breeding plumage, it has a
greyish-white nape plume and elongated grey breast feathers with white centers.
The major threats the heron faces are poaching (both the bird itself and
its eggs) and habitat destruction (the cutting of nesting trees and the
disappearance of wetlands).
This species is rarer than previously believed. Indeed, it appears close
to extinction. It has therefore
been up listed from Endangered to Critically
Endangered status in the 2007 IUCN Red List.
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