Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)

Other Scientific Names
Hydranassa tricolor [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Tricolored Heron, Tricoloured Heron, Tri-colored Heron, Tri-coloured Heron, Louisiana Heron

Family
Ardeidae (Herons)

Size
50 - 76 cm

First Described (Guide)
(M�ller, 1776)

Habitat
Mudflats and salt flats. From sea-level - 600 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda (B), Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B) (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Portugal, St Pierre and Miquelon (P).

Population
Estimated population is 290,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (45)...)

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) [XC222672]
by Paul Marvin from Chichiriviche area, Falcon, Venezuela (call)

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) [XC457454]
by Isain Contreras Rodr\u00edguez from TM Goodwin WMA, Brevard County, Florida, United States (call)

Subspecies
Birds of western Mexico often placed in separate subspecies occidentalis.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

ruficollis Gosse, 1847 - Southern and eastern USA to central America, western Indies, Colombia and north-western Venezuela.
tricolor (M�ller, 1776) - North-eastern Venezuela and Trinidad to north-eastern Brazil; Ecuador and extreme northern Peru.

References
See References.

Files:

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