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Indian Pond Heron
Ardeola grayii · Family Ardeidae
Ardeola grayii
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 944,288
- Countries and territories with records
- 38
About this species
This species has 944,288 occurrence records from 38 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (91.9%), Sri Lanka (4%), Nepal (1.7%) and Bangladesh (1.2%); together they account for 98.8% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ardeola grayii combines the genus name Ardeola with the species epithet grayii. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Ardeola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ardeola ralloides, Ardeola bacchus and Ardeola speciosa.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 67.4% of the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.