A secretive bird of mangrove and riverside forest, found in Northern Australia and southern South-east
Asia. The easiest place is probably the Daintree River cruise at the bottom of the Cape York Peninsular. Even so it took us several attempts to get
a half decent photo, from a site near Darwin, to Kakadu, and the aforementioned cruise twice. Even then the boat had passed the bird, hidden in riverside vegetation, before we spotted it.
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GREAT-BILLED HERON
Ardeola sumatrana
