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Black-crowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax · Family Ardeidae
Nycticorax nycticorax
Family Ardeidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Ardeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,161,339
- Countries and territories with records
- 218
About this species
This species has 3,161,339 occurrence records from 218 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (54%), Taiwan (9.6%), Canada (5.3%), India (4.3%) and Spain (2.5%); together they account for 75.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.15% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Nycticorax nycticorax combines the genus name Nycticorax with the species epithet nycticorax. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Nycticorax: Nycticorax caledonicus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 48 species of the family Ardeidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Ardea herodias. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (1,400,081). The family Ardeidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.