Intermediate Egret is a common breeding
resident from lowlands to the hills excluding north. Paddy fields, marshes,
lakes, mangroves and rivers are its habitats where it can be found solitary or as
flocks of few individuals. Intermediate Egret feeds mainly on fish but frogs,
grasshoppers and other insects are also eaten. It breeds from December to May
and the nest built in a heronry usually mixed with other herons and egrets on a
tree standing in shallow water.
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