The Chinese Pond Heron, Ardeola bacchus, is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands and ponds in China and East Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs. The Chinese Pond Heron is typically 47cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is red, blue and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. The Chinese Pond Heron lays a brood of between 3 and 6 blue green eggs, often in mixed nests with other herons.

References

• A Field Guide to the Birds of South East Asia by Robson, Craig., ISBN 1-8536-8313-2