Striated Heron
Butorides striata
NENot Evaluated
- Family
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns (Ardeidae)
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
Overview
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron or little green heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. It is mostly sedentary and noted for some interesting behavioural traits. The breeding habitat is in South America and the Caribbean. The striated heron was formerly considered to be conspecific with the little heron that is found in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Eastern Panama and all South America to northern Argentina and Chile.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guam
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Striated heron
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
