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Where does the Black-crowned Night-Heron live?

Nycticorax nycticorax has 3,144,357 records in 219 countries and territories, from 1802 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Black-crowned Night-Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron — ramidos / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeNycticorax

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 1,702,478
Taiwan 302,591
Canada 168,337
India 137,123
Spain 72,427
Mexico 72,085
France 56,298
Brazil 45,773
Argentina 45,244
Chile 41,298
China 39,356
Israel 34,744
South Africa 34,683
Colombia 32,900
Peru 25,773
Netherlands 20,808
Costa Rica 14,313
Hong Kong 14,175
Thailand 11,897
Philippines 11,222
Japan 9,790
Italy 9,291
Türkiye 8,630
Venezuela 7,986
Ecuador 6,941
United Arab Emirates 6,600
Belize 6,228
Portugal 6,166
Panama 6,061
Sri Lanka 6,009
Malaysia 5,788
Honduras 5,595
Greece 5,538
Czechia 5,512
Hungary 5,018
Puerto Rico 4,658
South Korea 4,505
Uruguay 4,437
Singapore 4,136
Poland 4,109

Showing the top 40 of 219 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.