The Chinese Pond-heron Scientific name: Ardeola bacchus is a typical wading bird with a body length of about 47 cm and a white wing with brown longitudinal stripes. Summer feather head, head side, long crest, neck and fore chest and chest side pinkish red, plume ends are branched; crown feathers are very long, extending to the back, feathers on the back and flat parts are also very long, showing lanceolate The shape is blue-black and extends to the tail; the tail is short and round, and the color is white. The chin and larynx are white, and there is a white line on the front neck, which extends down the front neck from below the lower mouth. There are long chestnut-brown filamentous feathers hanging from the chest. The belly, two flank, axillary feathers, underwing cover feathers and undertail covering feathers, and both wings are all white. Winter feathers have white and dense brown stripes on the top of the head, pale yellow skin with white neck and thick brown stripes, back and shoulder feathers are shorter than summer feathers, the color is dark yellow brown, and the chest is pale skin yellow and white with dense and thick Brown stripes, the rest resemble summer feathers.
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