#1058 · 🐦 birds

Tricolored Heron

🇳🇱 Witbuikreiger ·Egretta tricolor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Pete Followill · CC BY-NC 4.0
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3. © Andrej Chudý · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © uzun · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Logan Parker · CC BY-NC 4.0
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7. © Ken Janes · CC BY-NC 4.0
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9. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. © Carol Foil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The tricolored heron ( Egretta tricolor ), formerly known in North America as the Louisiana heron , is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the United States and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru. There is some post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 61,698iNaturalist observations
weight 415 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
61,698 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 415 g.
Scientifically named by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller in 1776 (250 years ago).