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Tricolored Heron
Egretta tricolor · Family Ardeidae
Egretta tricolor
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,667,208
- Countries and territories with records
- 55
About this species
This species has 1,667,208 occurrence records from 55 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (83.4%), Mexico (4.6%) and Costa Rica (2.4%); together they account for 90.4% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Egretta tricolor combines the genus name Egretta with the species epithet tricolor. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Egretta; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Egretta thula, Egretta garzetta and Egretta caerulea.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 1.2 times the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.