Black-backed Bittern

["David McDonald (personal)" <>]

Hmm, not so sure about 'outdated name', Julian. Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus dubius is the current name in the BirdLife Australia Working List v2, and that is the taxonomy & nomenclature that COG uses.
For info - David

On 18/12/2016 6:12 PM, Julian Teh wrote:

Philip, Australian Little Bittern is the outdated name for Black-backed Bittern. Black-backed has been in effect since IOC 3.1 (2012).

Shorty - nice shot!! I’ll be going for a hunt! 

Julian

On 18 Dec. 2016, at 6:06 pm, Philip Veerman <m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");" class="">> wrote:

Nice photo. It is a male Little Bittern. I did not know the name Black-backed Bittern. A quick look in books doesn’t reveal it. Strangely Cayley’s book uses that name as an alternate for the Brown Bittern, which does not suit it, as it doesn’t have a black-back.

 

Philip

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Black-backed Bittern

 

Got to see him this morning in front of Cygnus hide. A few have been reporting it as heard on e-bird recently.