Squacco Heron

When to see the Squacco Heron

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Squacco Heron

The map shades 107 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Netherlands, Finland, Iceland, Guadeloupe, Uzbekistan, Luxembourg.

About the Squacco Heron

The squacco heron is a small heron, 44–47 cm long, of which the body is 20–23 cm (8–9 in), with 80–92 cm wingspan. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East.

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Easily confused with

Chinese Pond HeronArdeola bacchusThe Chinese pond heron is an East Asian freshwater bird of the heron family, (Ardeidae). Javan Pond HeronArdeola speciosaThe Javan pond heron is a wading bird of the heron family, found in shallow fresh and salt-water wetlands in Southeast Asia. Rufous-bellied HeronArdeola rufiventrisThis is a small dark species of heron with a dark grey head, back and breast contrasting with a rufous belly, wings and tail.