🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Green live?

Butorides virescens has 3,378,397 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1802 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Green
Green — Photo: Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeButorides

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

18022026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 2,737,307
Canada 169,038
Mexico 119,304
Costa Rica 86,715
Belize 36,351
Panama 31,287
Puerto Rico 27,921
Guatemala 19,152
Cuba 18,379
Honduras 18,204
Bahamas 14,492
Nicaragua 10,529
Guadeloupe 8,298
Bermuda 8,080
Dominican Republic 7,652
Colombia 7,409
Curaçao 6,560
Cayman Islands 6,422
El Salvador 6,323
Aruba 5,254
Bonaire 4,461
Barbados 3,798
Jamaica 3,772
Trinidad & Tobago 2,700
US Virgin Islands 2,697
Grenada 1,599
Turks and Caicos Islands 1,493
Venezuela 1,442
Saint Martin 1,342
Haiti 1,098
Montserrat 1,091
Antigua & Barbuda 974
Saint Lucia 970
Sint Maarten 929
Martinique 776
Anguilla 768
Dominica 765
St Vincent & the Grenadines 712
Netherlands 606
British Virgin Islands 405

Showing the top 40 of 63 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.