The Chinese pond heron often nests in mixed-species heronries. It also meets two heronries, five habitats muskrat and four exceptional forest ecosystems. Rarely, large numbers of these birds congregate in heronries for nesting. Red-naped ibises usually nest individually and not in mixed species heronries. These birds breed gregariously in trees, often joining other waterbirds at heronries. The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. Herons, egrets, storks, and other large waterfowl also nest communally in what are called heronries.