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title: "Czapla okazała"
description: "Ardeola speciosa — Ptaki. The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/javan-pond-heron
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Czapla okazała

> Ardeola speciosa — Ptaki. The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Ardeola speciosa*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 4237
- Wikidata: [Q498183](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498183)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4991](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4991)

## Names

- en: Javan Pond-Heron
- de: Prachtreiher
- es: Garcilla indonesia
- fr: Crabier malais
- nl: Javaanse ralreiger
- pt: Garcinha-indonésia
- pl: Czapla okazała

## Countries with the most observations

ID (2280), TH (1115), PH (187), SG (75), MY (41), VN (34), TW (15), IN (9), KH (9), CN (8), JP (7), HK (6)

## Summary

The Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Its diet comprises insects, fish, and crabs.
The Javan pond heron is typically 45 cm long with white wings, a yellow bill with a black tip, yellow eyes and legs. Its overall colour is orange, slaty and white during mating season, and brown and flecked with white out of the mating season. The non-breeding plumage is similar to that of the Chinese and Indian pond herons and is virtually indistinguishable in the field. It breeds from June to September. It is migratory.
Widespread…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javan_pond_heron

## Photo

![Czapla okazała](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/javan-pond-heron/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Eaton · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/395783879

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/javan-pond-heron?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).