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English Striated Heron
Scientific (Butorides striata striata)
Order PELECANIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ardeidae
Family (English) Herons, Bitterns
Other name(s) Green-backed Heron
Breeding Regions MA, SA, PAL, AF, AU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Argentina,Australia,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belize,Benin,Bhutan,Bolivia,Botswana, Brazil,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Colombia,Comoros, Congo,Costa Rica,Democratic Republic of Congo,Djibouti,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,French Guiana, French Polynesia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Hong Kong,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland, Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Kenya,Laos,Liberia,Madagascar, Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal, Netherlands Antilles,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Panama,Papua New Guinea, Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Reunion,Russia,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Seychelles, Sierra Leone,Singapore,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname, Swaziland,Taiwan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Turkey,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates, Uruguay,Vanuatu,Venezuela,Vietnam,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
striata e Panama to n Argentina, Bolivia and Chile
steini Lesser Sundas
moluccarum Moluccas
papuensis nw New Guinea
idenburgi n New Guinea
flyensis sc, se New Guinea
stagnatilis coastal nw, nc Australia
macrorhyncha e, ne Australia and New Caledonia
solomonensis Lavongai (=New Hanover) to Solomon Is. (except Rennell), and Vanuatu to Fiji (sw Polynesia)
spodiogaster Andaman and Nicobar Is. and islands off w Sumatra
javanica Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to Thailand, Philippines, the Greater Sundas and Sulawesi
actophila e China to n Myanmar and n Vietnam
atricapilla Africa s of the Sahara
brevipes Somalia and the Red Sea coasts
crawfordi Aldabra and Amirante groups (s, c Seychelles)
rhizophorae Comoros
rutenbergi Madagascar and Réunion I.
degens ne Seychelles
albolimbata Chagos Arch. and Maldives
amurensis se Siberia, ne China and Japan
patruelis Tahiti Is. (Society Is.)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Mangrovereiher
French Héron strié
Chinese 绿鹭
Japanese ササゴイ
Russian Зелёная цапля
Spanish Garcita verdosa
Portuguese garçote-de-dorso-verde
Bird Data App text Found worldwide, except North America. Very similar (immatures almost identical) to the [Green Heron] of North America, with some range overlap in Panama and northern Colombia.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)