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.
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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 except AU Nonbreeding Range 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 BackGerman 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. 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)
