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Anon. 2012. Research on White-bellied heron. Rangzhin 5(1): 3.
Anon. 2014. Two White-bellied Herons sighted in Phibsoo. Rangzhin 7(1): 3.
BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Choudhury, A. 2000. The birds of Assam. Gibbon Books and WWF-India, Guwahati, India.
Dema, Tshering, Zhang, Liang, Towsey, Michael W., Truskinger, Anthony, Zhang, Jinglan, Brereton, Margot, & Roe, Paul. 2017. An investigation into acoustic analysis methods for endangered species monitoring. In: e-Science 2017 (ed.), 13th International Conference on e-Science. Auckland, New Zealand.
Maheswaran, G. 2007. Records of White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India. BirdingASIA 7: 48-49.
Mondal, H.S. and Maheswaran, G. 2014. First nesting record of White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India. BirdingASIA 21: 13-17.
Pradhan, R. 2007. White-bellied Heron Project 2005-2007: Annual Report December 2005-December 2006.
Pradhan, R.; Norbu, T.; Frederick, P. 2007. Reproduction and ecology of the world's rarest Ardeid: the White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis) in Bhutan. 31st Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society, 30 October - 3 November 2007, Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 97.
Price, M. R. S.; Goodman, G. L. 2015. White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis): Conservation Strategy. IUCN Species Survival Commission White-bellied Heron Working Group, part of the IUCN SSC Heron Specialist Group.
Royal Society for Protection of Nature (Bhutan). 2007. Project Areas. Royal Society for Protection of Nature (Bhutan).
RSPN. 2017. Construction of White-bellied Heron Captive Breeding Center begins. Available at: http://www.rspnbhutan.org/construction-of-white-bellied-heron-captive-breeding-facility-center-begins/. (Accessed: 08/08/2017).
Wangdi, K.; Dhendup, T.; Tshering, T. 2017. Anew critical habitat for conservation of the White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis Hume 1878 (Aves: Ardeidae) from Bhutan. J. Threatened Taxa 9(2): 9862-9863.
IUCN SSC Heron Specialist Group
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis. Downloaded from
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