Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (48)
- Subspecies (3)
Albert Martínez-Vilalta, Anna Motis, and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated October 18, 2014
Text last updated October 18, 2014
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Kleinrietreier (Woudapie) |
| Albanian | Gakthi i vogël |
| Arabic | واقة صغيرة |
| Armenian | Փոքր ջրցուլ |
| Asturian | Butorñn comñn |
| Azerbaijani | Kiçik dan quşu |
| Basque | Amiltxori txikia |
| Bulgarian | Малък воден бик |
| Catalan | martinet menut comú |
| Chinese (SIM) | 小苇鳽 |
| Croatian | čapljica voljak |
| Czech | bukáček malý |
| Danish | Dværghejre |
| Dutch | Woudaapje |
| English | Little Bittern |
| English (United States) | Little Bittern |
| Faroese | Smáglámur |
| Finnish | pikkuhaikara |
| French | Blongios nain |
| French (France) | Blongios nain |
| Galician | Garciña pequena |
| German | Zwergdommel |
| Greek | Μικροτσικνιάς |
| Hebrew | אנפית גמדית |
| Hungarian | Törpegém |
| Icelandic | Rindilþvari |
| Italian | Tarabusino |
| Japanese | ヒメヨシゴイ |
| Latvian | Mazais dumpis |
| Lithuanian | Mažasis baublys |
| Malayalam | ചിന്നക്കൊച്ച |
| Mongolian | Бичил одой бух |
| Norwegian | dvergrørdrum |
| Persian | بوتیمار کوچک |
| Polish | bączek |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Garçote-comum |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Garçote-comum |
| Romanian | Stârc pitic |
| Russian | Волчок |
| Serbian | Čapljica |
| Slovak | bučiačik močiarny |
| Slovenian | Čapljica |
| Spanish | Avetorillo Común |
| Spanish (Spain) | Avetorillo común |
| Swedish | dvärgrördrom |
| Turkish | Küçük Balaban |
| Ukrainian | Бугайчик звичайний |
| Zulu | umacuthomncane |
Ixobrychus minutus (Linnaeus, 1766)
PROTONYM:
Ardea minuta
Linnaeus, 1766. Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1], p.240.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Switzerland.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- Ixobrychus
- minutum / minutus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Little Bittern
