๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Pacific Reef-Heron live?

Egretta sacra has 149,473 records in 47 countries and territories, from 1840 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Pacific Reef-Heron
Pacific Reef-Heron โ€” Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) ยท CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeEgretta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. 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

18402026

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
Australia 67,230
Taiwan 20,566
Thailand 9,337
New Zealand 6,894
Indonesia 5,725
India 5,050
Hong Kong 4,492
Malaysia 3,544
Fiji 3,230
Japan 3,215
Philippines 2,312
French Polynesia 2,215
Singapore 1,571
Palau 1,471
Guam 1,419
Northern Mariana Islands 1,416
Papua New Guinea 1,040
South Korea 1,035
Vietnam 932
Cocos Islands 887
Vanuatu 834
New Caledonia 675
Cook Islands 632
China 565
Solomon Islands 505
Christmas Island 385
Samoa 375
Marshall Islands 363
Timor-Leste 316
Micronesia 259
American Samoa 250
Tonga 217
Macao 133
Myanmar 92
Cambodia 88
Niue 59
Wallis & Futuna 51
Kiribati 37
Brunei 18
Bangladesh 10

Showing the top 40 of 47 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.