White-eared Night Heron
Oroanassa magnifica(Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1899)
English (US) White-eared Night Heron
The White-eared Night Heron (Oroanassa magnifica) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) in the order Pelecaniformes.
Range: southeastern China (from southeastern Sichuan southward to central Yunnan, eastward to southern Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Hainan) and northern VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Oroanassa magnifica
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- White-eared Night Heron
- Described by
- (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1899)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nycticorax magnifica
- Described by
- (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1899)
- Type locality
- Five-finger Mountain, Hainan.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.7, vol.5 p.586
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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