Grey Heron
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Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Overview

Table Mountain National Park is the single atlas place where the Grey Heron is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Taiwan and France. The atlas holds about 1.4 million records of the bird from 29 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.

Seasons differ by region for the Ardea cinerea, and each place page shows the months when it was recorded there.

Records
1,442,224
Countries
29
Atlas places
1
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Grey Heron as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • United Kingdom
    25 km zone · high confidence · 254839 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belgium
    25 km zone · high confidence · 206724 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Norway
    25 km zone · high confidence · 189713 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Taiwan
    25 km zone · high confidence · 183438 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • France
    25 km zone · high confidence · 127011 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Spain
    25 km zone · high confidence · 123179 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • India
    25 km zone · high confidence · 75956 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Portugal
    25 km zone · high confidence · 58426 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Netherlands
    25 km zone · high confidence · 47495 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Japan
    25 km zone · high confidence · 16785 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Grey Heron