Javan Pond Heron

When to see the Javan Pond Heron

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Javan Pond Heron

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Japan, Australia, Laos.

About the Javan Pond Heron

The Javan pond heron is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs.

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Easily confused with

Rufous-bellied HeronArdeola rufiventrisThis is a small dark species of heron with a dark grey head, back and breast contrasting with a rufous belly, wings and tail. Malagasy Pond HeronArdeola idaeMalagasy pond herons grow to 45–50 cm (18–20 in) in height and anywhere from 250–350 g (9–12 oz) in weight. Chinese Pond HeronArdeola bacchusThe Chinese pond heron is an East Asian freshwater bird of the heron family, (Ardeidae).