🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Rufous Night-Heron live?

Nycticorax caledonicus has 136,607 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1834 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeNycticorax

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
Australia 124,980
Philippines 2,876
Palau 2,303
Malaysia 1,509
Papua New Guinea 1,213
Indonesia 1,043
Cocos Islands 995
New Zealand 677
New Caledonia 471
Taiwan 236
Solomon Islands 118
Timor-Leste 77
Micronesia 53
Brunei 31
Christmas Island 14
United States 4
Singapore 3
India 1
Japan 1
Nigeria 1

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Green
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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.