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Striated heron or mangrove heron, standing beside a lake in Lumpini Park which is a large public park in the center of the Thai capital

Striated Heron bird looking forward to the water. Horizontal shot

Striated Heron, butorides striata, Tombeau Bay, Mauritius

Adult Striated Heron looking for pray. They are also known as the Mangrove Heron, Little Green Heron or Green-backed Heron, Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Striated Heron - Butorides striata also mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, mostly non-migratory, breeding in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan, Australia, and in South America.

A yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) at Isabela Island in Western Galapagos, Ecuador.

Beautiful flying Little Heron isolated on white background with clipping path.

The striated heron is 35–48 cm (14–19 in) in length and has a wing-span of 52–60 cm (20–24 in). The sexes are alike. The plumage is vary variable, even sometimes within the same race. Adults have a blue-grey back and wings, white underparts and a black cap. These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, but are easier to see than many small heron species. They mainly eat small fish, frogs and aquatic insects.

$Striated Heron.\nThe striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little green heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly sedentary and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America and the Caribbean. Vagrants have been recorded on Oceanic islands, such as Chuuk and Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marianas and Palau; the bird recorded on Yap on February 25, 1991, was from a continental Asian rather than from a Melanesian population, while the origin of the bird seen on Palau on May 3, 2005 was not clear.$