Herons & Egrets in Czechia
Our list for Czechia has 9 herons & egrets recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 5 summer visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Czechia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaResidentCommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorUncommon58–65 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Little EgretEgretta garzettaSummer visitorUncommon55–65 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusSummer visitorUncommon33–38 cmRegularly May–Sep
Purple HeronArdea purpureaSummer visitorRare78–90 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellarisResidentRare69–81 cmRegularly Dec–Oct
Cattle EgretArdea ibisSummer visitorRare46–56 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesPassage migrantRare40–49 cmRegularly May
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made