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Where does the Great Blue live?

Ardea herodias has 14,190,794 records in 60 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Great Blue
Great Blue — Photo: DallasPenner · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeArdea

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 12,200,733
Canada 1,637,441
Mexico 143,359
Costa Rica 47,778
Belize 28,622
Cuba 14,991
Panama 14,853
Guatemala 11,240
Ecuador 10,911
Honduras 10,586
Puerto Rico 9,766
Bahamas 9,321
Bermuda 8,296
Nicaragua 5,988
Colombia 5,891
El Salvador 3,433
Dominican Republic 2,917
Aruba 2,905
Jamaica 2,810
Cayman Islands 2,796
Curaçao 2,366
Venezuela 1,965
Trinidad & Tobago 1,758
Bonaire 1,533
US Virgin Islands 1,350
Guadeloupe 1,009
Turks and Caicos Islands 848
Portugal 712
Barbados 681
Saint Martin 621
Sint Maarten 543
Antigua & Barbuda 479
Haiti 470
Grenada 441
St Kitts & Nevis 229
British Virgin Islands 186
Anguilla 173
Saint Lucia 157
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 126
St Vincent & the Grenadines 122

Showing the top 40 of 60 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.