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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
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− | + | Breeding range very patchy across southern Europe from Iberia to the Balkans and Ukraine. Also in parts of Turkey, the Middle East, Morocco and Egypt and east to Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. In decline in many areas through the drainage of wetlands but the first breeding for Sardinia was recorded in 1985 and the Balearics in 1997. Has a wide but scattered distribution in sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Sudan and Somalia and south to the Cape. | |
− | + | ==Taxonomy== | |
− | + | ==Habitat== | |
− | + | Freshwater swamps, ponds and ditches, often with very small areas of water, also larger waterbodies with dense vegetation, especially reedbeds with scattered willows. | |
− | + | ==Behaviour== | |
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==Bird Song== | ==Bird Song== | ||
<flashmp3>Ardeola ralloides (song).mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <flashmp3>Ardeola ralloides (song).mp3</flashmp3><br /> |
Revision as of 08:15, 27 June 2007
- Ardeola ralloides
Identification
Distribution
Breeding range very patchy across southern Europe from Iberia to the Balkans and Ukraine. Also in parts of Turkey, the Middle East, Morocco and Egypt and east to Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. In decline in many areas through the drainage of wetlands but the first breeding for Sardinia was recorded in 1985 and the Balearics in 1997. Has a wide but scattered distribution in sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Sudan and Somalia and south to the Cape.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Freshwater swamps, ponds and ditches, often with very small areas of water, also larger waterbodies with dense vegetation, especially reedbeds with scattered willows.
Behaviour
Bird Song
<flashmp3>Ardeola ralloides (song).mp3</flashmp3>
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