
Butorides striata
Kruger National Park, the Okavango Delta and Nairobi National Park are among the seven atlas places where the Striated Heron is recorded. Records of the bird concentrate in Australia, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and South Africa. This atlas holds about 239,000 records of Butorides striata from 37 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Recorded months differ by region because the records span both hemispheres. Each place page in the atlas shows the particular months when the bird is recorded in that area.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Striated 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.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.