What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Striated Heron been recorded?

Butorides striata occurrence evidence comes from 6,369 records in 65 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from Colombia.

Striated Heron
Striated Heron — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeButorides

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

6,369 records across 65 countries and territories, 1860–2026.

Butorides striata · GBIF taxon key 2480824

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

18602026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Striated Heron has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Striated Heron. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Colombia 2,627
South Korea 2,353
United States 489
Brazil 196
Argentina 86
Uganda 81
Peru 68
India 44
Ecuador 37
Kenya 33
Guyana 28
Malaysia 27
El Salvador 26
Philippines 21
Venezuela 19
Senegal 18
Bolivia 17
Solomon Islands 15
Trinidad & Tobago 14
Mexico 13
South Africa 12
Uruguay 11
Panama 10
Suriname 8
Honduras 7
Russia 7
Angola 6
Mongolia 6
Paraguay 6
British Indian Ocean Territory 5
Maldives 5
Singapore 5
Australia 4
Laos 4
Nicaragua 4
Thailand 4
Tanzania 4
Côte d'Ivoire 3
Djibouti 3
French Guiana 3

Showing the top 40 of 65 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.