Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Ixobrychus sturmii
Streams in open woods, flooded areas, reedbeds, marshes.
Locally in Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Chad, Sudan, sw Ethiopia, s Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, n Tanzania, se Zaire, Malawi, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, s Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia and ne S. Africa in Transvaal and w Natal. Ranges widely s of the Sahara as an intra-African migrant.

Nycticorax nycticorax
Marshes, swamps, ponds, lakes, mangroves. From s Europe n to Netherlands, Germany and Poland, e across s Russia, n to Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkestan and Lake Balkhash to Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, c,e China, Hainan I., Japan n to Honshu, s to nw Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, Mediterranean region, Nile Valley of ne Egypt, Near and Middle East, Andaman and Nicobar is., se Asia, Java, Bali, Flores, Borneo, Sulawesi, possibly Luzon. S Mauritania, Mali, Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, n Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, C. Afr. Rep., se Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia; s in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo to nw Angola; Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and S. Africa; Madagascar; Aldabra and Comores.
Hawaiian Is. from Niihau e to Hawaii; from c Washington, s Idaho, c Wyoming, ec Alberta, c Saskatchewan, s Manitoba, nw,c Minnesota, c Wisconsin, s Michigan, s Ontario, s Quebec, ne New Brunswick and Nova Scotia s through U.S., Middle America, Bahamas, Greater Antilles and S. America to Tierra del Fuego; Falkland Islands.

Butorides striatus
Ponds, rivers, lakes, lagoons, marshes, swamps, mangroves. Lowlands of Africa, breeding locally in w,e,se; coast of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; Madagascar and Comoro and Mascarene islands; lowlands, mostly below 1200 m, from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, c,e China, Hainan I., se Siberia, s Sakhalin and Japan n to n Honshu, s through se Asia, E. Indies, Philippines and New Guinea to is. in the Indian Ocean off India; coastal w,n,e,se Australia s in W. Australia to Carnarvon and in se to Victoria; islands from Bismarck Arch. and Solomons e,s to Fiji, New Caledonia, Loyalty and Tahiti in the Society Is. Lowlands to 2600 m from c,e Panama and w Colombia, Venezuela, Margarita I., Trinidad and Guianas s to nw Chile and n Argentina; Galapagos Is.

Butorides virescens
Ponds, rivers, lakes, lagoons, marshes, swamps, mangroves.
From sw British Columbia, w Washington, w Oregon, n Calif., wc,s Nevada, s Utah, nc New Mexico, e Colorado, e S. Dakota, c Minnesota, n Wisconsin, nc Michigan, s Ontario, s Quebec and s New Brunswick s through U.S., Middle America and W. Indies to e Panama, Pearl Is., Tobago and is. off n coast of Venezuela from Aruba e to La Tortuga and La Blanquilla.
striatus and virescens are best treated as allospecies
striatus was only a vagrant.

Ardeola ralloides
Swamps, marshes, rivers, lagoons, wet grassland. From s Iberian Pen., se France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania s to nw Morocco and Greece e through Turkey and Near East to Iraq, Iran, c,s Ukraine, upper Irtysh R. region and Transcaspia to Turkestan. Sw Mauritania, s Mali, Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, L. Chad area and from ne,se Zaire, s Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania; s to Gabon, Congo, Angola, n Namibia, e Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and e S. Africa in Transvaal, Orange Free State, Natal and se Cape Prov; Madagascar; Aldabra and Comores. Not recorded in Gulf of Guinea Is., Cape Verde Is., Eritrea, Djibouti, Socotra I., Yemen, Seychelles or Mascarene Is.

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