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Where does the Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron live?

Egretta garzetta has 3,850,714 records in 198 countries and territories, from 1845 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron
Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron — Shantanu Kuveskar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeEgretta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
India 525,969
Taiwan 520,066
United Kingdom 432,425
Spain 375,800
France 355,244
Netherlands 225,656
Australia 214,264
Portugal 142,639
South Africa 128,506
Thailand 75,789
Italy 74,042
China 66,672
Israel 62,395
Belgium 56,848
Japan 50,249
Türkiye 31,297
Hong Kong 30,676
Ireland 28,726
Greece 28,586
Sri Lanka 26,591
South Korea 24,255
Philippines 22,526
Malaysia 20,340
Singapore 17,912
Kenya 13,920
United Arab Emirates 11,807
Indonesia 11,544
Morocco 11,374
Cambodia 11,056
Nepal 10,343
Uganda 9,872
Bulgaria 8,869
Sweden 8,714
Croatia 8,302
Egypt 7,673
Tanzania 7,636
Botswana 7,596
Namibia 7,522
Madagascar 7,108
Denmark 7,042

Showing the top 40 of 198 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.