Javan Pond Heron
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Javan Pond Heron

Ardeola speciosa

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary
4 Verified records at Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs. The Javan pond heron is typically 45 cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is orange, slaty and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. The non-breeding plumage is similar to that of the Chinese and Indian pond herons and is virtually indistinguishable in the field. It breeds from June to September. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary

Chinese Pond Heron
LC

Chinese Pond Heron

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Ardeola bacchus

Insufficient data
Great Egret
LC Endemic

Great Egret

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Ardea alba

60–70% · Likely
Purple Heron
LC

Purple Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Ardea purpurea

60–70% · Likely
Little Egret
LC

Little Egret

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Egretta garzetta

30–40% · Possible
Striated Heron
LC

Striated Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Butorides striata

20–30% · Possible
Black-crowned Night Heron
LC

Black-crowned Night Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Nycticorax nycticorax

20–30% · Possible
intermediate egret

intermediate egret

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Egretta intermedia

10–20% · With luck
Ardea modesta

Ardea modesta

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Ardea modesta

10–20% · With luck
Nankeen Night-Heron
LC

Nankeen Night-Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Nycticorax caledonicus

<5% · Rare
Grey Heron
LC

Grey Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Ardea cinerea

<5% · Rare
Great-billed Heron
LC

Great-billed Heron

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Ardea sumatrana

<5% · Rare
Chinese Egret
VU

Chinese Egret

Bird

Egretta eulophotes

<5% · Rare

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Javan Pond Heron at Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Way Kambas National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
30–40%
2 Bali Barat National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
10–20%
3 Kaeng Krachan National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
<5%
4 Khao Yai National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
<5%
5 Kerinci Seblat National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
<5%
6 Khao Sok National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
Insufficient data
7 Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary 🇲🇾 Malaysia
Insufficient data
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