White-backed Night-heron

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White-backed Night-heron
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Ciconiiformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Gorsachius
Species: G. leuconotus
Binomial name
Gorsachius leuconotus
(Wagler, 1827)

The White-backed Night-heron (Gorsachius leuconotus) is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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