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Great-billed Heron № 127

Great-billed Heron

Ardea sumatrana

The biggest heron in Australia, over a metre tall, grey-brown and wary of people. It keeps to mangrove creeks and tidal rivers, and its call is a deep roar, mostly given at night.

Photo · Paul Whitington · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Marc Anderson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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