Medium Egret
Ardea intermedia
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns (Ardeidae)
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
Overview
The medium egret (Ardea intermedia), median egret, smaller egret or intermediate egret, is a medium-sized heron. Some taxonomists put the species in the genus Egretta or Mesophoyx. It is a resident breeder in southern and eastern Asia.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Japan to southern India and Greater Sundas.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Angola
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Christmas Island
- Côte d'Ivoire
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guam
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Japan
- Laos
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Medium egret
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
