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Green Heron
Butorides virescens · Family Ardeidae
Butorides virescens
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,384,052
- Countries and territories with records
- 63
About this species
This species has 3,384,052 occurrence records from 63 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (81%), Canada (5%), Mexico (3.5%), Costa Rica (2.6%) and Belize (1.1%); together they account for 93.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Butorides virescens combines the genus name Butorides with the species epithet virescens. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Butorides: Butorides striata.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 2.4 times the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.