Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Little Heron / Striated Heron / Green-backed Heron

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Little Heron / Striated Heron / Green-backed Heron

Order - Pelecaniformes
Family - Ardeidae (Herons)

Little Heron / Striated Heron /
Green-backed Heron

Butorides striata

绿鹭 (lǜ lù)

Malay : Pucung-Bakau Biasa

Japanese : ササゴイ (Sasa-goi)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 笹五位

Size : 35–48 cm

Subspecies and Distribution

Butorides striata anthonyi (Mearns, 1895)
– SW Canada, W USA and extreme NW Mexico (N Baja California).
Butorides striata frazari (Brewster, 1888)
– S Baja California.
Butorides striata virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) – Green Heron
– C & E USA (E from North Dakota and C Texas) and SE Canada S to Panama and Caribbean.
Butorides striata bahamensis (Brewster, 1888)
– Bahamas.
Butorides striata sundevalli (Reichenow, 1877) – Lava Heron
– Galapagos Is.
Butorides striata striata (Linnaeus, 1758) – Striated Heron
– E Panama and all S America S to N Chile and N Argentina.
Butorides striata atricapilla (Afzelius, 1804)
– Africa S of Sahara (S to Namibia and C & E South Africa) and islands in Gulf of Guinea.
Butorides striata brevipes (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833)
– coasts of Red Sea and N Somalia.
Butorides striata rutenbergi (Hartlaub, 1880)
– Madagascar.
Butorides striata crawfordi (Nicoll, 1906）
– Aldabra and Amirante Is.
Butorides striata rhizophorae (Salomonsen, 1934)
– Comoros Is.
Butorides striata degens (E. J. O. Hartert, 1920)
– Seychelles.
Butorides striata didi (W. W. A. Phillips & Sims, 1958)
– N Maldive Is.
Butorides striata albidula (Bangs, 1913)
– S Maldives.
Butorides striata spodiogaster (Sharpe, 1894)
– Andamans, Nicobars and islands off W Sumatra (Simeulue to Pagai Is).
Butorides striata albolimbata (Reichenow, 1900)– Chagos Archipelago (including Diego Garcia).
Butorides striata chloriceps (Bonaparte, 1855)
– Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka.
Butorides striata javanica (Horsfield, 1821)
– Myanmar and Thailand S to Greater Sundas; Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues.
Butorides striata amurensis (Schrenck, 1860)
– Russian Far East, Sakhalin, NE China (S to Shandong), Korea, Japan, Ryukyu Is
and Bonin Is.
Butorides striata actophila (Oberholser, 1912)
– C & E China S to N Vietnam and N Myanmar.
Butorides striata carcinophila (Oberholser, 1924)
– Taiwan, Philippines and Sulawesi.
Butorides striata steini (Mayr, 1943)
– Lesser Sundas.
Butorides striata moluccarum (E. J. O. Hartert, 1920)
– Moluccas.
Butorides striata papuensis (Mayr, 1940)
– W Papuan Is (Waigeo, Misool), lowlands of NW New Guinea (including islands in Geelvink Bay) and Aru Is.
Butorides striata idenburgi (Rand, 1941)
– NC New Guinea.
Butorides striata flyensis (Salomonsen, 1966)
– coastal SC & SE New Guinea.
Butorides striata rogersi (Mathews, 1911)
– NW Western Australia.
Butorides striata cinerea (Mayr, 1943)
– NE Western Australia.
Butorides striata stagnatilis (Gould, 1848)
– NC Australia.
Butorides striata littleri Mathews, 1912)
– NE Australia (NE Queensland).
Butorides striata macrorhyncha (Gould, 1848)
– E Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Is.
Butorides striata solomonensis Mayr, 1940)
– Melanesia from New Hanover to W Fiji.
Butorides striata patruelis (Peale, 1848)
– Tahiti, Society Is.