Conserving Herons
A Conservation Action Plan for the Herons of the World
| English Name | Scientific Name | SCS | Population | Range | PCS | 1% | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | LC | A.c.cinerea | SubSahara Africa | LC | 10000 | |
| A.c.cinerea | W Europe, NW Africa | LC | 2700 | 290000-340000 | |||
| A.c.cinerea | C & E Europe | LC | 2200 | 189000-256000 | |||
| A.c.cinerea | C, SW Asia | LC | |||||
| A.c.cinerea | S Asia | LC | 1000 | 100000 | |||
| A.c.jouyi | E Asia | LC | 10000 | ||||
| A.c.jouyi | Sumatra | VU | 15 | 1000-2000 | |||
| A.c.monicae | Mauritania | VU | 100 | 7500-12500 | |||
| A.c.firasa | Madagascar, Seychelles | EN | 50 | 5000 | |||
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | LC | A.h.herodias | N, Central America | LC | 124500 | |
| A.h.herodias | W North America | LC | (in above) | ||||
| A.h.herodias | N Mexico | LC | (in above) | ||||
| A.h.herodias | Baja Mexico | LC | |||||
| A.h.fannini | Alaska, W Canada | LC | 65 | 6500 | |||
| A.h.wardi | North America | LC | |||||
| A.h.occidentalis | Florida, Caribbean | VU | 1500 | ||||
| A.h.occidentalis | Caribbean | VU | |||||
| A.h.occidentalis | Central America | VU | |||||
| A.h.cognata | Galapagos | LC | |||||
| Cocoi Heron | Ardea cocoi | LC | South America | LC | 10000 | ||
| White-necked Heron | Ardea pacifica | LC | Australia, Oceania | LC | 1000 | ||
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | LC | A.a.alba | Europe | VU | 470 | 38000-54000 |
| A.a.alba | SW Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| A.a.melanorhynchos | Tropical Africa | LC | 3000 | 100000-500000 | |||
| A.a.egretta | North America | LC | 2700 | 270000 | |||
| A.a.egretta | Mexico | LC | |||||
| A.a.egretta | Central America | LC | |||||
| A.a.egretta | Caribbean | LC | |||||
| A.a.egretta | South America | LC | |||||
| Eastern Great Egret | Ardea modesta | S Asia (nb) | LC | 1000 | |||
| E Asia (nb) | LC | 1000 | |||||
| Indonesia | LC | ||||||
| Australia | LC | 1000 | |||||
| New Zealand | VU | 1 | 100 | ||||
| Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | LC | A.i.intermedia | S Asia | LC | 1000 | |
| A.i.intermedia | E, SE Asia, C Japan, Indonesia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| Indonesia | LC | ||||||
| A.i.brachyrhyncha | SubSahara Africa | LC | 1000 | ||||
| A.i.plumifera | E Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia | LC | 10000 | ||||
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | LC | Africa | LC | 3000 | 100000-500000 | |
| Malagasy Heron | Ardea humbloti | EN | Madagascar | EN | 20 | 1000-3000 | |
| White-bellied Heron | Ardea insignis | EN | SE Asia | CE | 6 | 250-1000 | |
| Sumatran Heron | Ardea sumatrana | LC | SE Asia | LC | 1000 | ||
| Australia | VU | 75 | 7500 | ||||
| Goliath Heron | Ardea goliath | LC | SubSahara Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| SW Asia | EN | 1 | 50 | ||||
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | LC | A.p.purpurea | Tropical Africa | LC | 880 | 75000-100000 |
| A.p.purpurea | SW, NW Europe, NW Africa | LC | 120 | 11500-12100 | |||
| A.p.purpurea | C, E Europe, Mediterranean | LC | 2200 | 13500-300000 | |||
| A.p.purpurea | SW Asia (br) | LC | 250 | ||||
| A.p.madagascariensis | Madagascar | VU | 75 | 5000-10000 | |||
| A.p.bournei | Cape Verde Island | EN | 1 | <50 | |||
| A.p.manilensis | S Asia | LC | 250 | 25000 | |||
| A.p.manilensis | SE, E Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| Cattle Egret | Ardea ibis | LC | A.i.ibis | S Africa | LC | 10000 | |
| Tropical Africa | LC | ||||||
| NW Africa | LC | 1300 | 100000-150000 | ||||
| SW Europe | LC | 2800 | 250000-310000 | ||||
| E Mediterranean, SW | LC | 1000 | |||||
| Asia | LC | ||||||
| North America (USA, Canada) | LC | 750000-1500000 | |||||
| Mexico | LC | ||||||
| Central America | LC | ||||||
| Caribbean | LC | ||||||
| South America | LC | ||||||
| A.i.seychellarum | Seychelles | LC | 100 | ||||
| A.i.coromandus | S Asia | LC | |||||
| A.i.coromandus | E, Se Asia | LC | 10000 | ||||
| A.i.coromandus | Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea | LC | 10000 | 100000 | |||
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | LC | B. virescens | C, E North America | LC | ||
| B. virescens | Mexico | LC | |||||
| B. virescens | Central America | LC | |||||
| B. virescens | Caribbean | LC | |||||
| B. virescens | Bermuda | VU | 1 | 30 | |||
| B.v.bahamensis | Bahamas | LC | |||||
| B.v.anthonyi | W North America, N Baja California | LC | |||||
| B.v.frazari | S Baja California | LC | |||||
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | LC | B.s.striata | Central America (Panama), N South America | LC | ||
| B.s.striata | C South America | LC | |||||
| B.s.striata | Bolivia | LC | |||||
| B.s.sundevalli | Galapagos | LC | |||||
| B.s.brevipes | E Africa, SW Asia | LC | 250 | ||||
| B.s.atricapilla | SubSahara Africa | LC | 10000 | ||||
| B.s.rutenbergi | Madagascar | LC | 250 | ||||
| B.s.rhizophorae | Comoro Islands | LC | 100 | ||||
| B.s.crawfordi | Aldabra, Amirante | LC | 50 | 5000 | |||
| B.s.degens | Seychelles | LC | 100 | ||||
| B.s.albolimbata | Chagos Islands, Maldives, Diego Garcia | VU | 100 | ||||
| B.s.chloriceps | India | LC | 250 | 25000 | |||
| B.s.spodiogaster | W Sumatra, Andaman, Nicobar | LC | |||||
| B.s.amurensis | NE China, SE Russia, Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, Bonin, Taiwan, S China | LC | |||||
| B.s.actophila | S China, N Indonesia, N Myanmar | LC | |||||
| B.s.javanica | W Indonesia, Indian Ocean, Myanmar, Thailand | LC | 1000 | ||||
| B.s.moluccara | Moluccas | LC | |||||
| B.s.moluccara | NW New Guinea, Aru | LC | |||||
| B.s.solomonensis | New Ireland, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, W Fiji | LC | 250 | ||||
| B.s.idenburgi | W Papua | LC | |||||
| B.s.flyensis | S New Guinea | LC | |||||
| B.s.stagnatilis | N Australia | LC | |||||
| B.s.stagnatilis | NW Australia | LC | |||||
| B.s.stagnatilis | NE Western Australia | LC | |||||
| B.s.patruelis | Tahiti, Society | LC | 2 | 100-200 | |||
| B.s.macrorhyncha | E Australia | LC | |||||
| B.s.macrorhyncha | SC New Guinea, NE Queensland | LC | |||||
| B.s.carcinophila | Taiwan, Philippines, Sulawesi | LC | |||||
| B.s.steini | Lesser Sundras, Indonesia | LC | |||||
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | LC | A.r.ralloides | SW Europe, NW Africa | LC | 40 | 2700-5600 |
| A.r.ralloides | C, E Europe, E Mediterranean | LC | 600 | 24000-76000 | |||
| A.r.ralloides | SW Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| A.r.paludivaga | SubSahara Africa, Madagascar | LC | 4500 | 300000-600000 | |||
| Indian Pond Heron | Ardeola grayii | LC | SW Asia S Asia | LC | 10000 | ||
| Myanmar, Andaman, Nicobar | LC | ||||||
| Maldives | VU | ||||||
| Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | LC | E, SE, S Asia | LC | |||
| Javan Pond Heron | Ardeola speciosa | LC | A.s.speciosa | W C Indonesia, S Philippines | LC | ||
| A.s.continentalis | C Thailand, S Indochina | LC | 1000 | ||||
| Malagasy Pond Heron | Ardeola idae | EN | Madagascar, Aldabra, E Africa | EN | 40 | 2000-6000 | |
| Rufous-bellied Heron | Ardeola rufiventris | LC | E & S Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | LC | E.r.rufescens | S USA | VU | 250 | 9000-15000 |
| E.r.rufescens | Mexico | VU | 15 | 1500 | |||
| E.r.rufescens | Central America | VU | 100 | ||||
| E.r.rufescens | Caribbean | VU | 100 | ||||
| E.r.rufescens | N South America | VU | 275 | ≤>2250-3000 | |||
| E.r.dickeyi | San Luis Island, W Mexico | VU | |||||
| Pied Heron | Egretta picata | LC | Oceania | LC | 1000 | ||
| Slaty Egret | Egretta vinaceigula | VU | C Africa | VU | 40 | 3000-5000 | |
| Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | LC | SubSahara Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| Madagascar | NT | ||||||
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | LC | E.t.tricolor | N South America | LC | ≤>180000 | |
| E.t.ruficollis | USA | LC | 293000 | ||||
| E.t.ruficollis | Mexico | LC | >1500 | ||||
| E.t.ruficollis | Central America | LC | |||||
| E.t.ruficollis | Caribbean | LC | |||||
| White-faced Heron | Egretta novaehollandiae | LC | E.n.novaehollandiae | New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, E Indonesia | LC | >5000 | |
| E.n. parryi | NW Australia | LC | |||||
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | LC | N America | LC | 2600 | 225000-300000 | |
| Mexico | LC | 1100 | 75000-150000 | ||||
| Central America | LC | ||||||
| Caribbean | LC | ||||||
| South America | LC | >150000-285000 | |||||
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | LC | E.t.thula | Central and North America | LC | 2100 | 215000 |
| E.t.brewsteri | W North America, Baja California | LC | 10000 | ||||
| E.t.thula | Mexico | LC | 1100 | 75000-150000 | |||
| E.t.thula | Central America | LC | |||||
| E.t.thula | Caribbean | LC | |||||
| E.t.thula | South America | LC | >390000-1170000 | ||||
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | LC | E.g.garzetta | SubSahara Africa | LC | 3500 | 200000-500000 |
| E.g.garzetta | W Europe, NW Africa | LC | 1300 | 200000-500000 | |||
| E.g.garzetta | C, E Europe | LC | 580 | 44000-72400 | |||
| E.g.garzetta | Barbados | VU | 1 | 30-60 | |||
| E.g.garzetta | W Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| E.g.garzetta | S Asia | LC | 1500 | 100000-200000 | |||
| E.g.garzetta | E SE Asia | LC | 10000 | ||||
| E.g.nigripes | Java, New Guinea | LC | |||||
| E.g.immaculata | Australia, New Zealand | LC | 1000 | ||||
| E.g.gularis | W Africa | LC | 1000 | ||||
| E.g.schistacea | NE Africa, Red Sea | LC | 1000 | ||||
| E.g.schistacea | SW Asia | LC | 170 | 17000 | |||
| E.g.dimorpha | Madagascar | LC | 130 | 6000-20000 | |||
| E.g.dimorpha | Aldabra, Amirante | LC | 60 | 3000-9000 | |||
| E.g.dimorpha | E Africa | LC | 100 | 10000 | |||
| Chinese Egret | Egretta eulophotes | VU | E Asia | VU | 30 | 2600-3400 | |
| Eastern Reef Heron | Egretta sacra | LC | E.s.sacra | SE Asia, Andaman, Nicobar, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines | LC | 10000 | |
| E.s.albolineata | New Caledonia, Loyalty | LC | 15 | 1000-2000 | |||
| Whistling Heron | Syrigma sibilatrix | LC | S.s.sibilatrix | South America | LC | >750-1500 | |
| S.s.fostersmithi | South America | LC | >5000-25000 | ||||
| Capped Heron | Pilherodius pileatus | LC | South America | LC | |||
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctinassa violacea | LC | N.v.violacea | North America | LC | 1100 | 75000-150000 |
| N.v.violacea | Mexico, Central America | LC | |||||
| Socorro, W Mexico | LC | ||||||
| N.v.calignis | Panama, W South America | LC | 450 | >40500-48000 | |||
| N.v.cayennensis | Colombia, NE, E Brazil | LC | |||||
| N.v.bancrofti | W Mexico to El Salvador, West Indies | LC | |||||
| N.v.pauper | Galapagos | LC | |||||
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | LC | N.n.nycticorax | W Europe, NW Africa | LC | 790 | 61000-97000 |
| C, E Europe, E. Mediterranean | LC | 1200 | 92100-138000 | ||||
| C Asia | LC | 1000 | |||||
| N.n.nycticorax | SubSahara Africa, Madagascar | LC | |||||
| N.n.nycticorax | S Asia | LC | 12500 | 100000-150000 | |||
| N.n.nycticorax | E, SE Asia | LC | 10000 | ||||
| N.n.nycticorax | North America | LC | 11000 | 750090-150000 | |||
| Mexico | LC | ||||||
| Central America | LC | ||||||
| Caribbean | LC | ||||||
| South America | LC | >150000-750000 | |||||
| N.n.obscurus | S South America | LC | |||||
| N.n.falklandicus | Falklands-Malvinas | LC | 80 | 5700-10800 | |||
| Reunion Night Heron | Nycticorax duboisi | EX | Reunion | EX | |||
| Mauritius Night Heron | Nycticorax mauritianus | EX | Mauritius | EX | |||
| Rodrigues Night Heron | Nycticorax megacephalus | EX | Rodrigues | EX | |||
| Rufous Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | LC | N.c.caledonicus | New Caledonia | LC | 30 | 2000-4000 |
| N.c.manillensis | Philippines, NE Borneo, Sulawesi | LC | |||||
| N.c.pelewensis | Palau, Carolines | LC | 100 | ||||
| N.c.mandibularis | Bismarck, Solomons | LC | 1000 | ||||
| N.c.hilli | Java, Australia, New Guinea | LC | 10000 | ||||
| White-backed Night Heron | Nycticorax leuconotus | LC | W Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| White-eared Night Heron | Gorsachius magnificus | EN | China | EN | 6 | 250-1000 | |
| Vietnam | EN | 1 | |||||
| Japanese Night Heron | Gorsachius goisagi | EN | S Japan; nb: Ryukyu, SE China, Philippines | EN | 6 | 250-1000 | |
| Malayan Night Heron | Gorsachius melanolophus | LC | G.m.melanolophus | SW India | LC | ||
| G.m.melanolophus | Indochina, SW China | LC | |||||
| G.m.melanolophus | Philippines | LC | |||||
| G.m.melanolophus | Palauan, Philippines | LC | 100 | ||||
| G.m.melanolophus | Nicobar | LC | 100 | ||||
| South American Bittern | Botaurus pinnatus | LC | B.p.pinneatus | Central America, N South America | LC | ||
| B.p.caribaeus | E. Mexico, Belize | LC | |||||
| North American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | LC | North America | LC | 20000 | 2980000 | |
| European Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | LC | B.s.stellaris | W Europe, NW Africa | LC | 900 | 5850-6700 |
| C E Europe, E Mediterranean | LC | ||||||
| W C Asia ( nb) | LC | 1000 | |||||
| C Asia (nb) | LC | ||||||
| S, E Asia LC | LC | 1000 | |||||
| Australasian Bittern | Botaurus poiciloptilus | EN | B.s.capensis | S Africa | EN | 50 | 5000 |
| Australia | VU | 2500-10000 | |||||
| Tasmania | VU | ||||||
| New Zealand | EN | 580-725 | |||||
| New Caledonia, Loyalty | EN | >50 | |||||
| Streaked Bittern | Ixobrychus involucris | LC | N South America | LC | 10000 | ||
| S South America | LC | ||||||
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | LC | I.e.exilis | N, Central America, Caribbean | LC | 1300 | 128000 |
| I.e.pullus | Sonora, NW Mexico | LC | |||||
| I.e.bogotensis | Colombia | LC | 5 | 150-750 | |||
| I.e.erythromelas | N South America to Paraguay | LC | |||||
| I.e.peruvianus | C W Peru | LC | |||||
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | LC | I.m.minutus | W Europe, NW Africa | VU | 150 | 11900-17900 |
| I.m.minutus | C, E Europe, NE Africa | LC | 2200 | 110000-325000 | |||
| I.m.minutus | W, SW Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| I.m.minutus | S Asia | LC | 250 | ||||
| I.m.payesii | SubSahara Africa | LC | 1000 | ||||
| I.m.podiceps | Madagascar | VU | 90 | 3000-15000 | |||
| I.m.dubius | SW, E Australia, New Guinea | LC | 75 | >7500 | |||
| I.m.novaezelandiae | Australasia | EX | |||||
| Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | LC | Seychelles | LC | 3 | <300 | |
| S Asia | LC | ||||||
| E, SE Asia | LC | 10000 | |||||
| Schrenck’s Bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | LC | E, SE Asia | LC | 250 | ||
| Cinnamon Bittern | Ixobrychus cinnamomeus | LC | S Asia | LC | |||
| SE Asia, Taiwan, S Japan | LC | 1000 | |||||
| Dwarf Bittern | Ixobrychus sturmii | LC | SubSahara Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| Black Bittern | Ixobrychus flavicollis | LC | I.f.flavicollis | S Asia | LC | 1000 | |
| I.f.flavicollis | E, SE Asia | LC | 1000 | ||||
| I.f.australis | Australia, New Guinea, Bismarck | VU | 200 | >20000 | |||
| I.f.australis | Timor | LC | |||||
| I.f.australis | Runnell | LC | 5 | <500 | |||
| I.f.woodfordi | New Britain, New Ireland | LC | 100 | ||||
| I.f.australis | Solomon | LC | 100 | ||||
| Zigzag Heron | Zibrillus undulatus | LC | South America | LC | |||
| Bare-throated Tiger Heron | Tigrisoma mexicanum | LC | T.m.mexicanum | C & N South America | LC | 100 | 10000 |
| T.m.mexicanum | Sonora, S. Mexico | LC | |||||
| Fasciated Tiger Heron | Tigrisoma fasciatum | LC | T.f.fasciatum | SE Brazil, NE Argentina | LC | 100 | |
| T.f.salmoni | C. America, NW, W South America | LC | |||||
| T.f.pallescens | NW Argentina | LC | |||||
| Rufescent Tiger Heron | Tigrisoma lineatum | LC | T.l.lineatum | W Mexico, W Ecuador, N Bolivia, E Brazil | LC | ||
| T.l.marmoratum | C Bolivia, E Brazil, NE Argentina | LC | |||||
| New Guinea Tiger Heron | Zonerodius heliosylus | NT | New Guinea, New Britain | NT | 100 | ||
| White-crested Tiger Heron | Tigriornis leucolophus | DD | W Africa | LC | 1000 | ||
| Agami Heron | Agamia agami | LC | Central, South America | LC | |||
| Boat-billed Heron | Cochlearius cochlearius | LC | C.c.cochlearius | E Panama, Guyana, Amazonia, NE Argentina | LC | ||
| C.c.zeledoni | W Central Mexico | LC | |||||
| C.c.phillipsi | E Mexico, Belize | LC | |||||
| C.c.ridgwayi | S Mexico, W Honduras, El Salvador | LC | |||||
| C.c.panamensis | Costa Rica, Panama | LC |