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Typical Squacco Heron in breeding plumage in the Parc Tsarasaotra (10 October 2018). Photo by Jacek Betleja. (ML 590678981).

Typical Squacco Heron in breeding plumage in the Parc Tsarasaotra (10 October 2018). Photo by Jacek Betleja. (ML 590678981).

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Figure 1. General view of heron colony in the Parc Tsarasaotra where...
Figure 2. Typical Squacco Heron in breeding plumage in the Parc...
Figure 3. Typical, mostly snowy white plumage of pure adult Malagasy...
Figure 4. Two pure adult Malagasy Pond Heron with distinct creamy tinge...
+7 Figure 5. Pure adult Malagasy Pond Heron, probably the same that from...
Identification of potential hybrids between Malagasy Pond Heron (Ardeola idae) and Squacco Heron (A. ralloides) based on photos
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  • Nov 2023
The present-day breeding population of the Malagasy Pond Heron (Ardeola idae), numbering several thousand individuals, is declining rapidly and the species is therefore Endangered. One of the threats to this species is hybridization with the Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides). Hybridization between these two species has not yet been fully studied, n...
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... the first visit (10 October 2018), all of the heron species were photographed including typical SH (Fig. 2) in the same pose like a typical MPH (Fig. 3), for better comparison. The photographic material was obtained and revealed the presence of three adult MPHs differing in appearance. The most typical bird was uniformly white with just a slight creamy tinge on the forehead (Fig. 3). It had intensely colored nonfeathered parts: red legs and ...