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Striated Herons are small herons with a grey back and a brownish, striated front. Their cap is black, with a black nuchal crest. The eyes are strikingly yellow. The bill is dark-grey. The legs have a greyish-yellow front side and yellow back side. Juveniles have a highly cryptic dark-brown plumage with lighter brown striation that gradually changes into adult plumage.

The Striated Heron is no longer considered to be conspecific with the Green Heron ("Butorides virescens") found in North America.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Little Heron is available HERE .

There are about 20 races of Little Herons, which are a sedentary species of small herons found in tropical and subtropical wetlands of Europe, Africa, Arabia, the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.

In Europe, Striated Herons, race "brevipes"(?), are only rarely seen as vagrants from the eastern Mediterranean Sea or Red Sea area.

As their alternative name already suggests, they favour mangrove swamps and tidal flats as their habitat.

Race "brevipes"

Race "macrorhyncha"

Race "stagnatilis"