#1109 · 🐦 birds

Little Heron

🇳🇱 Mangrovereiger ·Butorides atricapilla

🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Dave Mangham · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © cog2022 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © fotis-samaritakis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Dipika n Bhupesh Kurade · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Cemone Hedges · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Andre Harmse · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Gavin Goodyear · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The little heron ( Butorides atricapilla ) is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. It is mostly sedentary and frequents both fresh and salt water habitats. It is found in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia. The little heron was formerly considered to be conspecific with the striated heron.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,554iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).