🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Whistling Heron live?

Syrigma sibilatrix has 145,727 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Argentina.

Whistling Heron
Whistling Heron β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPelecaniformesArdeidaeSyrigma

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Argentina 54,297
Brazil 37,446
Colombia 27,023
Uruguay 8,027
Paraguay 7,156
Venezuela 6,695
Bolivia 4,373
Panama 258
Ecuador 251
CuraΓ§ao 94
Aruba 65
Chile 11
Trinidad & Tobago 8
Bonaire 7
Peru 6
Belize 4
Costa Rica 3
Nigeria 1
United States 1
ZZ 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.