(Butorides striata) - BirdLife species factsheet

Butorides striata

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of_the_WP15.xls.
Christidis, L.; Boles, W. E. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Cramp, S.; Perrins, C. M. 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.
del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A.; Sargatal, J. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Hancock, J.; Kushlan, J. 1984. The herons handbook. Croom Helm, London.
Kushlan, J. A.; Hancock, J. A. 2005. The herons. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
SACC. 2006. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2016	Not Recognised
2014	Not Recognised
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2005	Least Concern
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	unset	Forest dependency	unset
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend		-	-	-

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Angola	extant	native	yes
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	uncertain
Argentina	extant	native
Australia	extant	native
Bahrain	extant	vagrant			yes
Bangladesh	extant	native
Barbados	extant	uncertain
Benin	extant	native
Bermuda (to UK)	extant	vagrant				yes
Bhutan	extant	native
Bolivia	extant	native
Botswana	extant	native
Brazil	extant	native
British Indian Ocean Territory	extant	native		yes
Brunei	extant	native
Burkina Faso	extant	native
Burundi	extant	native
Cambodia	extant	native
Cameroon	extant	native
Central African Republic	extant	native
Chad	extant	native
Chile	extant	native
China (mainland)	extant	native
Christmas Island (to Australia)	extant	vagrant
Colombia	extant	native
Comoros	extant	native
Congo	extant	native
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native
Costa Rica	extant	native
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native
Djibouti	extant	native
Dominica	extant	uncertain
Ecuador	extant	native
Egypt	extant	native
Equatorial Guinea	extant	native
Eritrea	extant	native
Eswatini	extant	native
Ethiopia	extant	native
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	extant	vagrant
Fiji	extant	native	yes
French Guiana	extant	native
French Polynesia	extant	native
Gabon	extant	native
Gambia	extant	native
Ghana	extant	native
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	uncertain
Guam (to USA)	extant	native			yes
Guinea	extant	native
Guinea-Bissau	extant	native
Guyana	extant	native
India	extant	native
Indonesia	extant	native
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native	yes
Israel	extant	native		yes
Japan	extant	native
Jordan	extant	vagrant
Kenya	extant	native
Laos	extant	native
Liberia	extant	native
Madagascar	extant	native
Malawi	extant	native
Malaysia	extant	native
Maldives	extant	native		yes
Mali	extant	native
Martinique (to France)	extant	uncertain
Mauritania	extant	native
Mauritius	extant	native
Mayotte (to France)	extant	native
Micronesia, Federated States of	extant	native			yes
Montserrat (to UK)	extant	uncertain
Mozambique	extant	native
Myanmar	extant	native
Namibia	extant	native
Nepal	extant	native
New Caledonia (to France)	extant	native
Niger	extant	native
Nigeria	extant	native
North Korea	extant	native		yes
Northern Mariana Islands (to USA)	extant	native			yes
Oman	extant	native	yes
Pakistan	extant	native
Palau	extant	native			yes
Panama	extant	native
Papua New Guinea	extant	native
Paraguay	extant	native
Peru	extant	native
Philippines	extant	native
Qatar	extant	native			yes
Réunion (to France)	extant	native
Russia (Asian)	extant	native
Rwanda	extant	native
São Tomé e Príncipe	extant	native
Saudi Arabia	extant	native	yes
Senegal	extant	native
Seychelles	extant	native
Sierra Leone	extant	native
Singapore	extant	native
Solomon Islands	extant	native
Somalia	extant	native
South Africa	extant	native
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands	extant	native
South Korea	extant	native
South Sudan	extant	native	yes
Sri Lanka	extant	native
St Helena (to UK)	extant	vagrant
St Kitts and Nevis	extant	uncertain
St Lucia	extant	uncertain
St Vincent and the Grenadines	extant	vagrant
Sudan	extant	native
Suriname	extant	native
Taiwan, China	extant	native
Tanzania	extant	native
Thailand	extant	native
Timor-Leste	extant	native	yes
Togo	extant	native
Trinidad and Tobago	extant	native
Uganda	extant	native
United Arab Emirates	extant	native	yes
Uruguay	extant	native		yes
Vanuatu	extant	native	yes
Venezuela	extant	native
Vietnam	extant	native
Yemen	extant	native	yes
Zambia	extant	native
Zimbabwe	extant	native

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Butorides striata. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/butorides-striata on 22/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/11/2024.