Butorides striata
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron or little green heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. It is mostly sedentary and noted for some interesting behavioural traits. The breeding habitat is in South America and the Caribbean. The striated heron was formerly considered to be conspecific with the little heron that is found in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia.
The striated heron was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other herons in the genus Ardea and coined the binomial name Ardea striata. Linnaeus specified the locality as Suriname. The specific epithet is from Latin striatus meaning "striated". The striated heron is now one of four closely related species placed in the genus Butorides that was described in 1852 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.
This bird was long considered to be conspecific with the closely related North American species, the green heron, which is now usually separated as Butorides virescens, as well as the lava heron of the Galápagos Islands (now Butorides sundevalli, but often included... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Antananarivo | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Denpasar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 5 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 7 | Jinhua | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 8 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 9 | Makassar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 10 | Zanzibar City | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Parque Zoobotânico Arruda Câmara (BICA) | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Aquarama Barcelona | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | L'Oceanogràfic | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 5 | Mangal das Garças | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Cali Zoo | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Striated Heron sighting in Manila on a given day, based on 505 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 48th most-seen of the 191 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, April and November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Striated Heron in Manila on a given day, against under 5% in June, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Striated Heron sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
49th of 146
Of the 146 cities where we can rate Striated Heron sightings, Manila ranks 49th at about 10%. The best odds are in Salvador (Brazil, about 60%), Antananarivo (Madagascar, about 50%) and Fortaleza (Brazil, about 50%).
Same family: Ardeidae
The closest relatives of the Striated Heron that you can see in Manila (family Ardeidae, Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) are Little Egret (about 50%), Black-crowned Night Heron (about 40%) and Purple Heron (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Striated Heron is recorded against all the birds logged in Manila (505 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
