๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Chinese Pond-Heron live?

Ardeola bacchus has 158,029 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1840 to 2026. Most records come from Thailand.

Chinese Pond-Heron
Chinese Pond-Heron โ€” Charles Lam / CC SA 1.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeArdeola

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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
Thailand 46,905
China 30,108
Taiwan 28,407
Hong Kong 22,013
Cambodia 9,882
Vietnam 8,531
Laos 2,754
South Korea 1,861
Malaysia 1,811
Singapore 1,697
Macao 889
India 855
Myanmar 830
Philippines 400
Japan 398
Mongolia 181
Israel 164
Cocos Islands 91
Russia 76
Christmas Island 23
Bhutan 21
Indonesia 20
Sri Lanka 19
United Kingdom 18
Nepal 15
Brunei 14
United States 12
Palau 9
Bangladesh 6
Australia 5
Norway 3
Finland 2
Oman 2
ZZ 2
Spain 1
Hungary 1
North Korea 1
Nigeria 1
Pakistan 1

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