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Green Heron

🇳🇱 Groene Reiger ·Butorides virescens

🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Green Heron, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Tom Kennedy · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

De groene reiger ( Butorides virescens ) wordt ook wel de kleine groene reiger genoemd. De vogel komt voor in Noord- en Midden-Amerika. Deze reiger is nauw verwant aan de mangrovereiger en werd ook wel als een Noord-Amerikaanse ondersoort beschouwd.

base stats

  • NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 140,228iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 140,228 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Green Heron
Nederlands
Groene Reiger
scientific name
Butorides virescens
class
Aves
order
Pelecaniformes
family
Ardeidae
sightings in NL
1
sightings in Europe
43
sightings worldwide
140,228
GBIF records in NL
606
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

relatives· Ardeidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 5020, Wikidata Q498228, GBIF 9539567, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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