Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Purple Heron
Ardea purpurea
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Slimmer and more secretive than its gray cousin, vanishing among the reeds before you finish a breath. The reedbed's ghost-spear hunter.
- Populasi
- 180,000–380,000 mature individuals (global population declining)
- Habitat
- Freshwater wetlands, especially dense flooded reedbeds; also lake shores, river margins, marshes, rice-fields, mangroves, and coastal mudflats, from sea level up to about 1,800 m elevation
- Fakta menarik
- The Purple Heron has unusually long toes compared to the closely related Grey Heron, letting it walk across floating vegetation and even clamber through reed stems and bushes without needing to grip branches.
- Sebaran
- Widespread across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (from the Indian subcontinent east to the Philippines and Indonesia), plus Madagascar and the Cape Verde Islands; western Palearctic breeders migrate to sub-Saharan Africa for winter
- Makanan
- Mainly fish, amphibians, and small mammals; also nestling birds, reptiles, crustaceans, snails, and insects such as beetles, dragonflies, and grasshoppers
- Ukuran
- 0,88 m
- Bentang sayap
- 1,36 m
- Masa hidup
- 6,4 tahun
