how many herons, egrets and bitterns have you seen? (1 Viewer)

[Val35]

Country is the country where I saw the species for the first time

1. Grey Heron (France)
2.Purple Heron (France)
3.Goliath Heron (South Africa)
4. Black-headed Heron (South Africa)
5.Little Bittern (France)
6.Eurasian Bittern (France)
7.Black Crowned Night Heron (France)
8.Nankeen Night Heron (Australia)
9.Striated Heron (France, Reunion Island)
10.Squacco Heron (France)
11.Western Cattle Egret (France)
12.Great Egret (France)
13.Intermediate Egret (South Africa)
14.White Faced Heron (Australia)
15.Black Heron (South Africa)
16.Little Egret (France)
17.Dimorphic Egret (Madagascar)
18.White Backed Night Heron (South Africa)
19.Dwarf Bittern (South Africa)

Not sure if Dimorphic Egret is recognized as a full species or not though.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Current total is:

6 Ciconiidae (Must have miscounted?)
12 Threskiornithidae
23 Ardeidae

Since I posted this I was able to add Glossy Ibis, but lost Eastern Great Egret to the recent IOC lump. Also managed to add Great White Heron, but it is not included in the count.

Might be able to add a couple of more species this summer if my grants come through and I get to visit NZ and Australia this summer

how many herons, egrets and bitterns have you seen?​

6 Ciconiidae (Must have miscounted?)
12 Threskiornithidae

Not Herons, Egrets or Bitterns, neither is Hammerkop.

 

[Mysticete]

how many herons, egrets and bitterns have you seen?​

6 Ciconiidae (Must have miscounted?)
12 Threskiornithidae

Not Herons, Egrets or Bitterns, neither is Hammerkop.

Yeah I know...but a lot of people were also listing all of their wading birds

The pure list would be:

Rufescent Tiger-heron
Boat-billed Heron
American Bittern
Eurasian Bittern
Least Bittern
Yellow Bittern
Great Egret
Grey Heron
Great Blue Heron
Intermediate Egret
Black-headed Heron
Squacco Heron
Eastern Cattle Egret
Western Cattle Egret
Striated Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
White-faced Heron
Reddish Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Nankeen Night-heron
Black-crowned Night-heron

 

[Dortmundbirder]

18 in Total

Great Bittern
Little Bittern
Grey Heron
Western Reef Heron
Purple Heron
Striated Heron
Squacco Heron
Black-cowned Night Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Little Egret

Little Blue Heron
Tricoloured Heron
Great Blue Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Green Heron
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret

More than 10 years ago.

I added a couple now on the list. Now on a total of 30

1. Great Bittern
2. Yellow Bittern
3. Little Bittern
4. Cinnamon Bittern
5. Black Bittern
6. Fasciated Tiger-Heron
7. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
8. Great Blue Heron
9. Gray Heron
10. Black-headed Heron
11. Goliath Heron
12. Purple Heron
13. Great Egret
14. Intermediate Egret
15. Little Egret
16. Western Reef-Heron
17. Snowy Egret
18. Little Blue Heron
19. Tricolored Heron
20. Reddish Egret
21. Cattle Egret
22. Squacco heron
23. Indian Pond-Heron
24. Chinese Pond-Heron
25.Green Heron
26. Striated Heron
27. Agami Heron
28. Black-crowned Night Heron
29. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
30. White-backed Night Heron

 

[Andy Adcock]

I guess I’m doing OK!
52 Herons, Egrets and Bitterns
15 Storks
18 Spoonbills and Ibises
Hammerkop and Shoebill.

If we counted these I'd have

17 Storks, only Oriental and Greater Adjutant needed for the set.
14 Spooners and Ibis
Hammerkop and Shoebill

 

[Andy Adcock]

48 for me, the best being this one...

White-bellied?

 

[Andy Adcock]

54 herons- there are some very difficult herons but it more or less possible to see them all; the hardest (and I've seen none of them) include White-bellied Heron, Japanese Night-heron, White-eared Night-heron and now Shrenck's Bittern. I don't know any reliable sites for the last one.

cheers, a

There used to be a regular bird in a small pond at Danum Valley but it wasn't there in 2000 when I was.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Larry and Alan,

Surely your disdain for egrets can't extend to such a fantastic bird as Agami Heron?

Carlos

That's a bird I'd really like to see!

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

So my missing species are
Greater Adjutant, Milky, Abdim’s, Oriental and Jabiru Storks
Black-faced Spoonbill
Madagascar Sacred, Black-headed, Red-named, White-shouldered, Giant, Southern Bald, Asian Crested, Olive, Dwarf, Spot-breasted, Wattled, Plumbeous, Sharp-tailed, Green, Bare-faced and Scarlet Ibises
Forest, Australasian, Pinnated, Stripe-backed, Least, Australian Little, Schrenk’s and Cinnamon Bitterns
White-crested Tiger, Agami, Zigzag and White-bellied Herons
White-eared, Japanese and Malay Night Herons
Chinese Egret

 

[DMW]

White-bellied?

Yes, in Bhutan.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

47 Herons, bitterns, egrets

And 20 storks (which is all of them).

 

[earlytorise]

I live in Hong Kong and spent three years in the UK.

It was a great relief for me to twitch a Schrenck's Bittern a few weeks ago. This, along with Black Bittern, has become much rarer in Hong Kong than before.

Anyway, my current ticks are as follows:

Yellow Bittern (HK)
Schrenck's Bittern (HK)
Cinnamon Bittern (HK)
Grey Heron (HK, UK)
Purple Heron (HK, UK)
Great Egret (HK, UK)
Intermediate Egret (HK)
Chinese Egret (HK)
Little Egret (HK, UK)
Western Reef-Heron (UAE)
Pacific Reef-Heron (HK)
Cattle Egret (HK, UK)
Squacco Heron (UK)
Chinese Pond Heron (HK)
Striated Heron (HK)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (HK)
Japanese Night-Heron (HK)