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The Malayan Night-Heron.


The Malayan Night-Heron.
The Malayan Night-Heron (Gorsachius
melanolophus),(Immature) also known as Malaysian
night heron and tiger bittern, is an elusive
chestnut and brown nocturnal heron.

It is stocky, with a short beak with rufous neck,
barred chestnut back, black cap with crest, and
white tipped primaries. The juvenile is greyish to
rufous and is spotted and vermiculated.

A heron of mature moist forests. It occurs in
dense, high rainfall, subtropical or evergreen
forests.
It is nocturnal, although it feeds readily
crepuscularly and by day as well. It is a solitary
forager that feeds by Walking slowly at the edges
of water, fields and other feeding areas.
It roosts in trees and feeds in open areas.It
nests singly and not in association with other
waterbirds.

Because of it is a solitary species in difficult
habitat away from surveys and bird watchers; its
migration is not very well understood.
So little is known of this heron that much of its
basic biology is speculative.
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