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Ardeola bacchus · Family Ardeidae
Ardeola bacchus
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 158,833
- Countries and territories with records
- 39
About this species
This species has 158,833 occurrence records from 39 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (29.6%), China (19.2%), Taiwan (17.9%), Hong Kong (13.9%) and Cambodia (6.2%); together they account for 86.8% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.71% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ardeola bacchus combines the genus name Ardeola with the species epithet bacchus. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Ardeola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ardeola grayii, Ardeola ralloides and Ardeola speciosa.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 24th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 11.3% of the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.