Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve and BirdPhotos.com.
Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Additional updates and changes by BirdPhotos.com 2016.
Additional Information
English Black-crowned Night Heron
Scientific (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Order PELECANIFORMES
Family (Latin) Ardeidae
Family (English) Herons, Bitterns
Other name(s) Black-crowned Night-heron, Héron bihoreau, Black-Crowned Night Heron, Night Heron
Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions except AU
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Cayman Islands,Anguilla,Somalia,Guinea,Seychelles,Turks and Caicos Islands,Guyana,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Peru,Indonesia,Argentina,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Latvia,Antigua and Barbuda,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Bangladesh,Brazil,Paraguay,Ecuador - mainland,Mali,Croatia,Virgin Islands,Swaziland,Jamaica,Dominica,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Bahamas,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Barbados,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Grenada,Germany,Burkina Faso,Chile,Palestine,French Guiana,Uzbekistan,Haiti,Costa Rica,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Panama,Rwanda,Uruguay,Syria,Benin,Puerto Rico,Hungary,Zambia,Trinidad and Tobago,Saint Lucia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Macao,Sri Lanka,Suriname,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Guatemala,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Honduras,Qatar,Nicaragua,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Mexico,Djibouti,El Salvador,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Cuba,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Bolivia,Egypt,Australia,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Montserrat,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Dominican Republic,Bermuda,Iran,Northern Mariana Islands,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Palau,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Yemen,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Colombia,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Venezuela,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,British Virgin Islands,United States - mainland,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
nycticorax Eurasia s to Africa and Madagascar and e to e Asia, Philippines and Indonesian Arch.
hoactli s Canada to n Argentina and Chile; Hawaii
obscurus Chile and sw Argentina
falklandicus Falkland Is.
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sound File(s) link return with Back
German Nachtreiher
French Bihoreau gris
Chinese 夜鹭
Japanese ゴイサギ
Russian Кваква
Spanish Martinete común
Portuguese goraz-comum
Bird Data app text Found worldwide.
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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, 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)