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Michele Mendi

Secretive and solitary heron, breeding in a broad band around 50th latitude from Western Europe and UK to Eastern Asia, and in South Africa. Migratory, but more patchily breeding populations further south in Europe are mainly resident. Population still large, but decreasing due to habitat destruction, degradation and fragmentation, not yet leading to a trend below the thresholds to be classified as Vulnerable. Strong preference for quiet lowland marshes around lakes and rivers with extensive reedbeds. Diet consists of fish and amphibians and variety of other small animals.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendStable
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
147000-206000,174000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
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