Striated Heron (Butorides striata) [XC623411]
by Ken Behrens from Antsiranana Urban, Antsiranana Province, Madagascar (flight call)
Striated Heron (Butorides striata) [XC278946]
by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Ecol\u00f3gica de Guapi A\u00e7u (REGUA), RJ, Brazil (call)
Nest
A loose structured platform composed of sticks, placed in a tree, uaually a mangrove, growing in or near water.
Eggs (Guide)
3 or 4; chalky green-blue; oval; about 42 x 31 mm. Incubation: 21 - 25 days; by both sexes.
Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 28 days.
Subspecies
Striated Heron (Butorides striata) and Galapagos Heron (Butorides sundevalli) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Butorides striata following AOU (2003).
Subspecies virescens and sundevalli often treated as full species.
The following 31 subspecies are recognised:
striata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Eastern Panama and all southern America south to northern Chile and northern Argentina.
anthonyi (Mearns, 1895) - Western USA, northern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Green Heron (Butorides virescens).
frazari (Brewster, 1888) - Southern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Green Heron (Butorides virescens).
virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) - Eastern and central USA to Panama. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Green Heron (Butorides virescens).
bahamensis (Brewster, 1888) - Bahamas. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Green Heron (Butorides virescens).
sundevalli (Reichenow, 1877) - Galápagos Islands. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Galapagos Heron (Butorides sundevalli).
atricapilla (Afzelius, 1804) - Africa south of Sahara and islands in Gulf of Guinea.
rutenbergi (Hartlaub, 1880) - Madagascar.
brevipes (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) - Red Sea and northern Somalia.
crawfordi Nicoll, 1906 - Aldabra and Amirante Is.
rhizophorae Salomonsen, 1934 - Comoros Is.
degens Hartert, 1920 - Seychelles.
albolimbata Reichenow, 1900 - Diego Garcia, Chagos and Maldive Is.
chloriceps (Bonaparte, 1855) - Indian Subcontinent, Laccadives, Sri Lanka.
javanica (Horsfield, 1821) - Burma and Thailand south to Greater Sundas; Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues.
amurensis (Schrenck, 1860) - Manchuria east to Sakhalin, south to Shantung and Korea, Japan, Ryukyu and Bonin Is.
actophila Oberholser, 1912 - Eastern China to northern Viet Nam and northern Burma.
spodiogaster Sharpe, 1894 - Andomans, Nicobars and islands off western Sumatra.
carcinophila Oberholser, 1924 - Taiwan, Philippines and Sulawesi.
steini Mayr, 1943 - Lesser Sundas.
moluccarum Hartert, 1920 - Moluccas.
papuensis Mayr, 1940 - North-western New Guinea and Aru Is.
idenburgi Rand, 1941 - North-central New Guinea.
rogersi Mathews, 1911 - North-western western Australia.
cinerea Mayr, 1943 - North-eastern Western Australia.
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