| Yellow 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. sinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Botaurus sinensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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The yellow bittern (Botaurus sinensis) is a small bittern. It is of Old World origins, breeding in the northern Indian Subcontinent, east to the Russian Far East, Japan and Indonesia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances. It has been recorded as a vagrant in Alaska and there is a single sighting in Great Britain, from Radipole Lake, Dorset on November 23, 1962 – however, the British Ornithologists' Union has always considered this occurrence to be of uncertain provenance and currently it is not accepted onto the official British List. This species was formerly placed in the genus Ixobrychus.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ixobrychus sinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22697303A93606843. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697303A93606843.en. Retrieved 25 October 2021.