| Von Schrenck's bittern | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Ardeidae |
| Genus: | Botaurus |
| Species: | B. eurhythmus
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| Binomial name | |
| Botaurus eurhythmus (R. Swinhoe, 1873)
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Von Schrenck's bittern or Schrenck's bittern (Botaurus eurhythmus) is a small bittern named after Leopold von Schrenck, the 19th-century Russian zoologist. It breeds in southeast Siberia, east China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It winters from the Malay Peninsula to the Greater Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and the Philippines. This species was formerly placed in the genus Ixobrychus.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ixobrychus eurhythmus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22697317A93607859. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697317A93607859.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.