Available data demonstrate that organic management of rice paddy fields provides optimal foraging areas for birds and is beneficial to many endangered species of birds, such as the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), little egret (Egretta garzetta),
grey heron (Ardea cinerea), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), black - winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) and many others.
I've always loved great blue
herons, their blue
grey wings are like twilight, their elegance among domesticity, their perseverance and cleverness.