cinnamon bittern

Uniform-looking cinnamon-rufous flight feathers and tail in all plumages. Male has cinnamon-rofous crown,hind neck and mantle/scapulars. Female has browner crown and mantle, and brown streaking on foreneck and reast.Juvenile has buff motting on dark brown upperparts, and is heavily streaked with dark brown on underparts.

Habits very similar to those of Little. Often found in same locality and in same habitat as Yellow. Reedbeds in lakes and marshes, and flooded paddy-fields.

feed on insects, fish, and amphibians.

Territorial call is a loud kok-kok.

The cinnamon bittern or chestnut bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus) is a small Old World bittern breeding in tropical and subtropical Asia from India east to China and Indonesia. It is mainly resident but some northern birds migrate short distances. It is a small species at 38 cm (15 in) length though it is one of the larger Ixobrychus bitterns. Possessing a short neck and longish bill the male is uniformly cinnamon above and buff below. The female is similar but her back and crown are brown and the juvenile is like the female but heavily streaked brown below. When surprised on its nest or concerned it assumes the characteristic attitude of bitterns termed the on-guard. The neck is stretched perpendicularly bill pointing skyward while the bird freezes and becomes very hard to see among the surrounding reeds.