It was tearing into the cane toad from inside the mouth and eating it. Compared with the Crested Serpent Eagle, you can see just how large the cane toad is.
A spot a few tens of metres from where I found the two Eurasian Hoopoes the other day. I wonder if the Sakieda Peninsula is a gateway for hoopoes arriving on migration?
The iris colour is different, and the overall impression is quite distinct from other Malayan Night Herons I've seen. It was catching earthworms in a pasture.