๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the intermediate egret live?

Egretta intermedia has 833,009 records in 97 countries and territories, from 1844 to 2026. Most records come from India.

intermediate egret
intermediate egret โ€” Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India / CC BY 2.0 ยท 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 308,524
Australia 189,201
Taiwan 129,541
South Africa 35,035
Thailand 31,300
Sri Lanka 17,934
Malaysia 10,446
Kenya 9,763
Singapore 9,359
China 8,862
Philippines 8,485
Japan 8,149
South Korea 7,917
Hong Kong 6,142
Cambodia 6,054
Indonesia 4,110
Nepal 3,981
Botswana 3,665
Tanzania 3,404
Uganda 2,953
Gambia 2,789
Vietnam 2,121
Zambia 1,701
Zimbabwe 1,667
Bangladesh 1,600
Namibia 1,598
Papua New Guinea 1,559
Senegal 1,437
Oman 1,226
Ghana 1,168
Myanmar 1,109
Mozambique 1,103
Nigeria 966
Ethiopia 901
Rwanda 722
Pakistan 721
Laos 525
Palau 523
Malawi 347
Cocos Islands 306

Showing the top 40 of 97 places.

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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.