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Species profile—Ixobrychus dubius (Australian little bittern)

Classification

Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns) → Ixobrychus dubius (Australian little bittern)

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Species details

Kingdom
Animalia (animals)
Class
Aves (birds)
Family
Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns)
Scientific name
Ixobrychus dubius (Linnaeus, 1766)
Common name
Australian little bittern
WildNet taxon ID
1816
Synonym(s)
Ixobrychus minutus
Alternate name(s)
little bittern
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
Least concern
Back on Track (BoT) status
Data deficient
Conservation significant
No
Wetland status
Wetland Indicator Species
Endemicity
Native
Pest status
Nil
Species environment
Aquatic & Terrestrial

Other resources

Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM)
Atlas of Living Australia

Data source

This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1816

This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.

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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Last updated
23 October 2019
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