common little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) Avetorillo común (Ixobrychus minutus)
Date 7 May 2011, 09:02
Source Avetorillo común (Ixobrychus minutus)
Author Juan Emilio from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España http://www.flickr.com/people/22009023@N03
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avetorillo_com%C3%BAn_(Ixobrychus_minutus)_(5697168264).jpg
The little bittern or common little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) is a wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae. Ixobrychus minutus is native to the Old World, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, western and southern Asia, and Madagascar. Ixobrychus is from Ancient Greek ixias, a reed-like plant and brukhomai, to bellow, and minutus is Latin for "small".
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Ixobrychus
Species: Ixobrychus minutus (Linnaeus, 1766)
