Chestnut Bittern
The cinnamon bittern (''Botaurus cinnamomeus'') or chestnut bittern 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 bird migration, migrate short distances. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Ixobrychus''. Taxonomy The cinnamon bittern was Species description, formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with herons, cranes, egrets and bitterns in the genus ''Ardea (bird), Ardea'' and coined the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Ardea cinnamomea''. Gmelin based his description on the "Chinese heron" that had been included by the English ornithologist John Latham (ornithologist), John Latham in his multi-volume ''A General Synopsis of Birds''. Latham had based his own description on a partial specimen in the British Museum. The cinnamon ...
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