Scientific name: Ixobrychus sinensis
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae

The Yellow Bittern is a small bittern, breeding in tropical Asia from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka east to Japan and Indonesia. Their breeding habitat is reedbeds. They nest on platforms of reeds in shrubs. 4-6 eggs are laid. They can be difficult to see, given their skulking lifestyle and reedbed habitat, but tend to fly fairly frequently, when the striking contrast between the black flight feathers and the other wise yellowish plumage makes them unmistakable.

Yellow Bitterns feed on insects, fish and amphibians.

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