| Description 46 cm. Relatively bulky, long-necked heron. It has streaked head and neck and it has pale yellow plumage, with long streaked plumes on its nape. When it takes flight its white wings, rump and tail can be observed. Its bill is blue-grey with black tip. In Hungary breeds regularly in mixed species heronries of floodplain forests and of marshes with scattered bushes. Breeds mostly along the River Tisza and Körös riverbranches, Hortobágy, Kiskunság and Kis-Balaton. Habitat Floodplains, marshes and bogs, swamps Can be found in the following IBAs 04 Kis-Balaton 11 Sárvíz valley 26 Pusztaszer Landscape Protection Area 32 Hortobágy 38 Kesznyéten puszta | _241x300.JPG)
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