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English Striated Heron Scientific (Butorides striata) Order PELECANIFORMES Family (Latin) Ardeidae Family (English) Herons, Bitterns Other name(s) Green-backed Heron Regions MA, SA, PAL, AF, AU Breeding Range widespread Nonbreeding Range Countries (BETA) map Nepal,Somalia,Guinea,Seychelles,Guyana,Mozambique,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Peru,Indonesia,Argentina,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Turkey,Malawi,Mauritius,Maldives,Bangladesh,Brazil,Paraguay,Ecuador - mainland,Mali,Swaziland,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Botswana,Namibia,Taiwan,Laos,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Cameroon,Burkina Faso,French Guiana,Costa Rica,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Panama,Rwanda,North Korea,Uruguay,Benin,Zambia,Trinidad and Tobago,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,Suriname,China,Sierra Leone,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Vanuatu,Philippines,Ghana,French Polynesia,Djibouti,South Korea,Solomon Islands,Togo,Gabon,Kenya,Bolivia,Egypt,Australia,Papua New Guinea,Iran,Northern Mariana Islands,Mauritania,Russia,Tanzania,Palau,Chad,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Bhutan,Sao Tome and Principe,Yemen,Colombia,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Reunion,Venezuela,Sudan,Senegal,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan, 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) Sound File(s) link return with BackGerman 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. Historical Infonatura static map
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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, 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)
