Little Heron
Butorides atricapilla
NENot Evaluated
- Family
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns (Ardeidae)
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
Overview
The little heron (Butorides atricapilla) is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. It is mostly sedentary and frequents both fresh and salt water habitats. It is found in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia. The little heron was formerly considered to be conspecific with the striated heron.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Countries
- Angola
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Christmas Island
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Indonesia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Oman
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Reunion
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Little heron
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
