Photo of a pinnated heron/bittern by R. Plomp made in Coronie Suriname 1996 (in a fresh water swamp), sorry that I have no better picture available. It is a medium sized brown heron. The bird is maybe not uncommon in swamps, but from the records you cannot tell. There are only about 5 reports of this bird since 1965. It will eat fish, but Haverschmidt, who caught a couple of them, found it will also eat snakes and frogs.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna |  |
| Forests | |
| Mountain forests | |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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