Purple Heron

Garden Route, Table Mountain and Kruger National Park are among the four atlas places where the Purple Heron is recorded, with records concentrating in India, Spain, France, South Africa and Taiwan. The atlas holds about 336,000 open records of this bird from 36 countries. Because the map shows where these records concentrate, it represents a portion of the total range.

Since this species is recorded across both hemispheres, the seasons for recording it differ by region. Each place page in the atlas shows the particular months when it was recorded there.