Common Name
White-faced Heron
Comment
Common around margins of wetlands and on tidal flats.
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Local distribution
Widespread and common across the Gold Coast in terrestrial wetlands, grasslands and estuarine and littoral habitats
Known location
Coomera, Bundall, Tallebudgera Creek, Hope Island, Reedy Creek, Mudgeeraba, Guanaba, Arundel, Bahrs
Other locality
Common around margins of streams and dams and on tidal flats. A very adaptable bird that often visits streams and artifical wetlands in urban parks.
General ecology
Margins of creeks, rivers, dams, estuaries, mudflats, wet paddocks; occasionally in parks and gardens.
Habitat comment
Sometimes visits parks and gardens to prey on skinks and grasshoppers. Often sighted in human-made habitats: parks, dams, ornamental ponds.
