Von Schrenck's Bittern

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has uniformly chestnut upperparts
2. Buff underparts and wing coverts
3. Rather long yellow bill; yellow legs
4. Black flight feathers and tail in flight

Male, female and young

Females and juveniles are chestnut overall, with fine white spots on the upperparts and white streaks on the underparts.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May · Most records: China, Singapore, Russia

Von Schrenck's Bittern has been recorded at 195 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 14 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Muravyevka ParkRussia169 records
2. Sungei Buloh Wetland ReserveSingapore63 records
3. Singapore Botanic GardensSingapore47 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaSingaporeRussiaThailandSouth KoreaMalaysiaIndonesiaJapan

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (Botaurus eurhythmus) is a small bittern named after Leopold von Schrenck, the 19th-century Russian zoologist. It breeds in southeast Siberia, east China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It winters from the Malay Peninsula to the Greater Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

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