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).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 290,000 (2010).
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) [XC882488]
by Dan Mennill from Cuyutl\u00e1n, Armer\u00eda Municipality, Colima, Mexico (call)
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) [XC193124]
by Paul Marvin from Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States (begging call, 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 (Müller, 1776) - North-eastern Venezuela and Trinidad to north-eastern Brazil; Ecuador and extreme northern Peru.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet