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English
Noun
squacco heron (plural squacco herons)
- Synonym of squacco
1785, John Latham, “Genus LXV. Heron.”, in A General Synopsis of Birds, volume III, part 1st, London: Printed for Leigh & Sotheby, , →OCLC, paragraph 39 (Squacco H), page 74:SQUACCO H[ERON]. [...] This is an elegant ſpecies, and inhabits the bays of the Caſpian Sea, and the ſlow ſtreams of the ſouthern Deſert. It is alſo met with in Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Sguacco, and is ſaid to be a bold and courageous bird.
1826, Thomas Bewick, “The Squacco Heron”, in A History of British Birds, 6th edition, volumes II (Containing the History and Description of Water Birds), Newcastle: Printed by Edw Walker, , for T Bewick; sold by him, Longman and Co., , →OCLC, page 20:["]It is also met with in Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Squacco, and is said to be a bold and courageous bird." [Quoting John Latham: see the 1785 quotation.] In the Globe London newspaper, of the 4th December, 1820, it is stated that, "there has been taken within a few miles of Yarmouth, a male bird, of that very rare species, Ardea comata, of [Peter Simon] Pallas, or the Squacco Heron, of Latham."
1989, Adrian Lewis, Derek Pomeroy, “Family Ardeidae: Bitterns, Herons, Egrets”, in A Bird Atlas of Kenya, Rotterdam, Brookfield, Vt.: A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema, →ISBN, paragraph 32 (Madagascar Squacco Heron), page 57, column 2:[T]his species forms part of a species-group with the Squacco Heron (31), and the two frequent broadly similar habitats except for the Madagascar's apparent preference for more open situations in its non-breeding range [...]. Their maps, however, are distinctly different, with the Squacco more widespread in the W and N, while the distribution of the present species reflects its penetration into Kenya as a migrant from the S.