11001-38504 Reef heron (Egretta sacra sacra) adult standing on shore. Found on both North and South Island, mainly on rocky shores. Especially numerous in Northland, but only thinly distributed south of Marlborough Sounds *
11001-38509 Reef heron (Egretta sacra sacra) white 'phase' standing on a tropical reef. Reef herons come in two colour phases - the dark phase is found around New Zealand's rocky shores. In the tropics, where there are white coral beaches and reefs the white 'phase' predominates *
11001-38904 Nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus australasiae) widespread through Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia, and into NZ where it has now become a rare breeding resident (along the Whanganui River). William Colenso first recorded a vagrant bird from a swamp in the Waikato in 1842 *