About a week ago, after a fitful night’s sleep on an unfamiliar mattress, I was awakened by a dawn chorus unlike any I have heard: the familiar notes of a crowing rooster, but this time joined in song ...
Striated heron, Butorides striata (synonym, Butorides striatus; protonym, Ardea striata), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the mangrove heron or mangrove bittern, as the little mangrove heron, the little ...