Yellow Bittern

Breeds in Indian Subcontinent,
east to Japan and Indonesia

...rare vagrant in Alaska.

Ixobrychus sinensis

(L 14-15")

Laem Pak Bia District

26Mar2016

Ixobrychus in Greek means
to devour;

sinensis refers to China.

We need the tonic of wildness — to
wade sometimes in marshes where
the bittern and the meadow-hen
lurk....

(Henry David Thoreau)