A small crested buff and white heron found in southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Ardeola ralloides, family Ardeidae
Example sentencesExamples
- There was also a pair of squacco herons in the reeds.
- It also houses specimens of night herons, squacco herons, little egrets and is usually visited by the marsh harrier.
- The squacco heron is a summer migrant from sub-Saharan Africa to the marshes of southern Europe.
- Martin Wagner, from Thames Water said: ‘The sighting of the squacco heron is a great success for the company as well as for wildlife.’
- A couple of spur-winged plovers were flying around and a squacco heron flew over me.